Dr. Vendley, Father Kishkovsky, Sheikh Majid(NEW YORK, 11-12 June 2007)—Amid deepening challenges in Iraq, Religions for Peace, the Alhakim Foundation, and New York University Center for Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West brought together the senior Iraqi religious and other civil society leaders at the United Nations on June 11–12 to help forge global partnerships to rebuild Iraqi national consensus and an “Iraq for all Iraqis.” More than eighty participants gathered at the United Nations for the dialogue, including Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebar and Ambassadors Dr. Hamid al-Bayati and Feisal al-Istrabadi, respectively Iraq’s Permanent and Deputy Permanent Representatives to the United Nations.

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