Ban Ki-moon Arrives in Baghdad for Talks
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Baghdad on Monday for talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and other top officials.
Ban first met President Fuad Masum and Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and was also due to meet parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi before holding talks with Abadi.
The UN mission in Iraq announced Ban's arrival on Twitter but provided no details of the agenda of the talks.
Iraqi forces are advancing in the city of Tikrit, the government's largest military operation yet against "ISIL" terrorist group.
Ban flew in from Egypt, where he attended an Arab League summit in Sharm el-Sheikh dominated by Saudi-led military aggression against Yemen.
He is expected to travel on to Kuwait for a meeting of international donors on Tuesday called to address a massive funding gap in the response to the conflict in Syria.
Ban's new special representative Jan Kubis, a diplomat from Slovakia, arrived in Baghdad on Friday to take over from Bulgaria's Nickolay Mladenov.
The UN office of the commissioner for human rights issued a report in March saying that "ISIL" terrorists may have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Iraq.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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