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U.N. Iraq political team visits Mosul

BAGHDAD, April 12 (UPI) -- U.N. special Iraq adviser Lakhdar Brahimi and his team traveled to Mosul last weekend, their first trip outside Baghdad on this visit to Iraq.

The team met Saturday with civic, religious and political leaders, tribal chiefs and members of the local council, U.N. officials said.

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Spokesman Farhan Haq at U.N. World Headquarters in New York confirmed told UPI the Mosul trip was the first outside the capital during the 8-day-old visit, which coincides with an upsurge in deadly violence.

The team members have been soliciting the views of a broad cross-section of Iraqis on how best to deal with the transition to sovereignty, set for the end of June.

Sunday and Monday, Brahimi met with Jalal Talabani and Adnan Pachachi, members of the Iraqi Governing Council. Pachachi is head of its subcommittee on elections, the officials said.

Brahimi also met with a delegation from the Muslim Clerics Association and this month's council president, Massoud Barzani, and a group of 10 people representing the Iraqi Institute for Development and Democracy, who presented him with a paper on the transfer of sovereignty.

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