Iraqi Sunnis vow to support unity govt

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Iraq’s vice president and top Sunni leader Tareq al-Hashimi on Sunday vowed to support the beleaguered national unity government led by Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

“We have committed earlier to be an honest partner in prime minister Maliki’s government and this partnership is still on despite the facts that many things were not implemented the way we want,” Hashimi told reporters in a joint news conference with Maliki and President Jalal Talabani.

The leaders addressed the media after holding a meeting of the Political Council for National Security to discuss the situation in Iraq which has seen hundreds killed over the past three days in a fresh outbreak of violence.

Hashimi however called for a review of the government, while vowing that the National Concord Front - the main Sunni parliamentary bloc - and his own party, the Iraqi Islamic Party, remained “a partner in the political process”.

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