PKK. Iraq's federal government in Baghdad, for its part, has been trying to conciliate the Turks, even as it criticises their incursion.

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In Baghdad, a conference to conciliate Iraq's rival political parties fell apart.

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And Macedonia's government should be pressed to conciliate its Albanian-speaking population.

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Certainly Mr Safir, who shares his political master's tendency to attack his critics rather than conciliate, thinks the current carping has been whipped up by Mr Giuliani's Democratic opponents.

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Its prime minister, Hisham Qandil, told Mr Haniyeh to conciliate his Palestinian rivals under Mahmoud Abbas who run the Palestinian Authority based in Ramallah on the West Bank, if he wanted relations with Egypt to improve.

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As a matter of fact, on Sunday night, on Election Day, when both of them declared themselves the winners, they both reached out and said that they were going to try to conciliate and bring unity to the nation.

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