Iraq: Maliki, Hakim and attempts to revive electoral coalition – Update 1note

The (Shiite) Dawa Party is said to be putting preconditions to continue dialogue with the Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq (SICI), which is being held in a bid to revive the broad Shiite electoral coalition. The following 408-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what the preconditions are about. It also tells how the SICI command reacted to these preconditions.