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Article: Rice hails Iraq's progress toward national reconciliation, presses for more
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- January 15, 2008
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice congratulated Iraq's leader on Tuesday for "quite remarkable" progress toward national reconciliation.
But senior Iraqi officials said Rice also warned Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki against losing a "golden opportunity" during President Bush's final year in office to bring Sunni Arabs into a unity government.
The officials said Rice further warned al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders she met in Baghdad that the recent reduction of violence in Iraq could prove fleeting if the country's main Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish groups did not reach an enduring agreement on the future shape of Iraq.
Underlining the continuing ...