Baghdad, Jan 8, (VOI) – The Sadrist bloc decided to return to the Iraqi parliament and government after representatives of the Shiite cleric Maqtada al-Sadr’s movement met on Monday the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a source close to the Premier’s office said.

"A Sadrist bloc delegation met today noon the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki informing him of the Sadists’ decision to end the Sadr movement legislators and ministers’ suspension of membership in parliament and government," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose parliamentary bloc garnered 30 seats, had suspended the Sadrists' membership in parliament and government in protest against a meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had with U.S. President George W. Bush in the Jordanian capital Amman late in November, and failure to hammer out a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq