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Main Sunni bloc ends parliament boycott

By Steve Negus, Iraq Correspondent

Published: July 19 2007 16:13 | Last updated: July 19 2007 16:13

Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political front on Thursday ended a month-long boycott of parliament, in a move that could begin to ease the passage of long-delayed legislation aimed at reconciling the country’s sectarian blocs.

The decision by the Iraqi Consensus Front, which controls 44 seats in the 275-seat Council of Deputies, comes two days after the radical Shia Sadrist trend also returned to the legislature.

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