BAGHDAD - The two main Iraqi Kurdish groups moved to unite the administration of their two competing strongholds in the Kurdish enclave of northern Iraq, confirming Saturday they will present an outline by month's end on a single government. Leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK — the two armed political groups running Kurdish northern Iraq — said they've set up a six-member committee to complete the plan. "It was a sense of responsibility that persuaded us that this was a must," said Arif Tayfor, a KDP spokesman. Murad Mohammed Ibrahim, a PUK spokesman, said a unified administration would be based in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, which houses the Kurdish parliament.
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