UNAMI Organizes a Workshop on National Settlement in Cooperation with RCD and National Reconciliation Follow-up Committee
In order to achieve community peace and consolidate peaceful coexistence among the components of Iraqi people, a discussion session was held in Karbala entitled (National Settlement: Prospects and Challenges) under the sponsorship of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) in cooperation with Al Rafidain Center for Dialogue RCD and the National Reconciliation Follow-up and Implementation Committee of the Prime Minister Office. The session was attended by Mr. Aqeel Turaihi, Governor of Karbala, and a group of political, academic and intellectual elites, as well as civil society organizations from Karbala and Babylon. At the session, it has also been listening to the views of the participants about challenges and entitlements of the post-ISIS terrorist group, proposed ways to achieve a political and societal settlement, as well as presenting their proposals regarding role of the United Nations for the success of settlement process. While, the representatives of the organizers of the session talked about the importance of contributing in finding a real historical settlement, as Mr. Zaid Al-Talaqani, chairman of RCD, explained his supporting for realistic settlement projects which are different from previous ones, while the Deputy Secretary-General of UNAMI, stressed that the United Nations is working seriously to provide advice and support to the Iraqi government in this project, confirmed that the United Nations is in constant contact with the Shiite religious authority in Najaf, describing it as "the first supporter of the project of reconciliation and national reconciliation in Iraq." From his part, Mr. Hussein Al-Adli, advisor to National Reconciliation Follow-up and Implementation Committee, stressed that the government of Dr. Haider Al-Abadi is the most determined to pursue the project of national reconciliation and make the points of historic settlement successfully achieved.