Abdul Aziz al Hakim, a religious leader with the IGC who is close to Sistani, took part in Monday's meetings at U.N. headquarters.
Al-Sadr's chief Shiite political rival, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, said that only Iraqis should control Iraq.
And although al-Hakim never held a government position, he commanded respect from those who did.
Akram al-Hakim is Iraq's minister of state for national dialogue, arguably a critical position at the moment.
Jabr, the head of al-Hakim hospital, was kidnapped Saturday while driving in eastern Baghdad, said a police official.
Absent from Monday's major announcement were two of the most influential Shiite leaders, al-Sadr and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.
Al-Hakim ended his exile in Iran in 2003 when he returned to Iraq after Hussein and his regime were toppled.
Al-Hakim played a central role in shaping Iraq's future following his return.
Al-Hakim died Wednesday in Tehran after a lengthy battle with lung cancer.
The funeral procession started at the Iraqi Embassy in Tehran, said Haitham al-Husseini, a senior official with al-Hakim's office and one of his advisers.
"From the beginning, we were and we still insist on the importance of not having any resolution that can challenge our national sovereignty, " al-Hakim said.
Al-Hakim had always propagated a message of peace, calling on Iraqis to stop taking part in the bitter sectarian conflict that followed the fall of Hussein.
Al-Hakim, the former head of the United Iraqi Alliance who has been receiving cancer treatment in Iran, has been hospitalized there after his health deteriorated, his party announced Sunday.
Mourners turned out to say goodbye to Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who spent 20 years in exile in Iran before returning to Iraq after U.S.-led forces toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The latest sign of this was the assassination attempt on Grand Ayatollah Seyed Mohammed Said al-Hakim, a leading Shia Muslim cleric, in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on Sunday.
Shia, such as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition, the Islamic Supreme Council led by cleric Ammar al-Hakim and the Sadrist Movement led by radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
Al-Hakim himself was also the target of assassination attempts.
Although Muhammad al-Hakim, its leader (and the son of a well-known grand ayatollah), claims to have a significant guerrilla network inside Iraq, last week's events show he cannot capitalise on Shia unrest.
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Mr. AKRAM AL-HAKIM (Iraqi Minister of State for National Dialogue): (Through Translator) We want to show them the door is open for them to participate, particularly the Islamic front and the dialogue front and others in parliament.
The leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri), Ayatollah Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim, was among about 100 people killed in a massive car bombing in the Shia holy city of Najaf in August 2003.
But if Iraq is to survive, at some point Shiite cleric Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Sunni cleric Avari(ph), and Kurdish leaders are all going to have to sit together, despite the fact that they fought with one another, and come to an understanding about what the character of the Iraqi nation is going to be.
Two former Libyan dissidents, Sami al-Saadi and Abdul Hakim Belhadj, allege that the UK was involved in their kidnap and rendition.
London's Metropolitan Police said in January that it would investigate claims that the British secret services were involved in the rendition of al Saadi and a second Libyan, Abdul Hakim Belhaj, to Libya and their alleged ill treatment there.
It is led by Abdel Hakim Belhaj, once head of the now defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, widely regarded as being close to al-Qaeda.
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