Three boycotters attend Iraq cabinet meeting-TV

BAGHDAD, Aug 14 (Reuters) Three members of an Iraqi secularist political bloc that had been boycotting government meetings attended a cabinet session today, Iraqiya state television quoted a government spokesman as saying.

The three members of the Iraqi National List of former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi were among five that had said last week they were no longer attending cabinet meetings.

Iraqiya quoted government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh as saying they attended Tuesday's meeting.

The government has been in crisis because the main Sunni Arab bloc pulled its six ministers out earlier this month. Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have also quit.

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