Hoshyar Zebari
Hoshyar Zebari
Hoshyar Zebariis the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Iraq. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 until 2014. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zebari holds a master's degree in sociology from the University of Essex, England and studied political science in Jordan. He was the foreign spokesperson for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the 1990s and represented the party to both the United Kingdom and the United States...
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people are saying that Saddam is going to try the occupation, Saddam is going to try the government, but really we are not afraid of that. I don't think that even the US or Britain are afraid of this.
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They don't deny there is infiltration, ... but they are always willing to establish mechanisms, communications, etc., to deal with these problems.
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Talks are continuing. They are not bogged down. They are not gridlocked, ... We believe we will reach an agreement very soon.
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Nowhere are the goals of freedom, democracy and progress more at stake, ... We know our clear way forward, but we need your help. We need the help of every member nation and this organization to win this fight. We stick together, or we lose together.
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We have warned our neighbors - our Arab brothers, our Islamic brothers - that the new Iraq is going to be a different one, ... It's always been taken by those who oppose change in Iraq that Iraq has been hijacked - by the Americans, by the Israelis, by the Kurds, by the Shiites - to strip it from its Arab womb. ... If you care so much, why don't you have embassies? Why don't you send ambassadors?
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We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader.
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The security challenge is related to the progress and advance we make in the political process,
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We want a good, solid constitution. We don't want to force a deal on any group that they're uncomfortable with.
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We do not have any preconceptions that could be seen as attempts to deprive some Russian company of the possibility of exploiting oilfields in Iraq,
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We reached the final agreement with the Kuwaiti government to resume our diplomatic activities and we will reopen our embassy within the few coming weeks.
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to protect the freedoms of the rest of the civilized world.
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We need these forces. It is an Iraqi need, more than an American or coalition need. The consequences would be catastrophic.
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We have presented our visions and our priorities to you. Now it's your turn to look at those elements and those priorities to see where you can help,
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We will challenge these elements in Iraq, the antidemocratic elements, by even bringing the handover of sovereignty before June 30 as a sign we are ready for it,