premise: Leaders of Iraq's bitterly divided political parties unveiled a series of reform ideas Sunday after two days of peace talks aimed at ending the bloodshed engulfing the country.
  But a conference spokesman told AFP that delegates had managed to make only one practical suggestion amid various declarations of good intent, an apparent sign that the much-hyped event had ended in disappointment.
  "The only important practical measure recommended by the conference is paying sizeable pensions to former soldiers," Naseer al-Ani told AFP.
  On Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki invited some Saddam Hussein-era servicemen to join his armed forces and offered pensions to the others in an olive branch to a community that has filled the ranks of the insurgency.
  "Other than that, participants reiterated slogans about national unity and expressed good intentions for reforms that will have to be approved (by government and parliament)," said Ani.
   What was the purpose of Iraq's peace talks?
hypothesis: bitterly divided political parties unveiled a series of reform ideas