Adnan Pachachi
Adnan Pachachi
Adnan al-Pachachi or Adnan Muzahim Ameen al-Pachachiis a veteran Iraqi politician and diplomat. Pachachi was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1959 to 1965 and foreign minister of Iraq from 1965 to 1967 during the Six-Day War with Israel; he again served as permanent representative to the UN from 1967 to 1969. After 1971, he spent a long period in exile. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Pachachi has been an important figure in Iraqi politics, often described...
NationalityIraqi
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 May 1923
CountryIraq
We have to prove to the world that a civil war is not and will not take place among our people. The danger is still looming and the enemies are ready for us because they do not like to see a united, strong, stable Iraq.
will hasten the end of the acts of violence that have been perpetuated recently.
We intend to have continued meetings for days and nights.
People have to be convinced that these two men are in fact killed and are no longer a threat to the peace of the country,
We will have at the end of this process a government that derives its legitimacy from the free desire of the Iraqi people,
We only had Kalashnikov rifles. Now we have more powerful weapons.
We are on the verge of taking a major step in our political path.
There are other volunteers who take turns, up to 50 of us here.
This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.
An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
I think the Shiites want a theocracy.
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.