Iraqi groups wooed outgoing Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and Sunnis to join a coalition yesterday as they predicted that Iraq's next government could be formed within a week. Six weeks after the release of results from the landmark Jan. 30 elections, Iraq still had no new government, but talk of a breakthrough was afoot. "We have set next Thursday (March 24) as a preliminary date for the National Assembly to reconvene," Jawad Al-Maliky, a member of the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), told reporters. "We have agreed on the principles of the government, but we do not have yet a final deal on the make-up of the government. We hope that will happen before the assembly meets." Fawzi Hariri, an aide to foreign minister and Kurdish negotiator Hoshyar Zebari, suggested: "Within a week to 10 days the whole thing should be done." The new Parliament held its first session Wednesday. Zebari told AFP the Kurdistan Alliance, with 77 seats in the 275-member Parliament, had finally agreed on the terms of forming a coalition government with the UIA, the biggest victor with 146 seats.