Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabaniis an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Karim Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage. He is known as "Mam Jalal" meaning "uncle Jalal" among Kurdish people...
NationalityIraqi
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 November 1933
CountryIraq
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Some of our demands were met so the party has endorsed the constitution and is urging people to vote 'Yes',
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My not signing does not mean that I will block the decision of the court,
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My reply was that the Kurdish people welcome the presence of American forces in Kurdistan in order to defend the freedom they enjoy and to prevent being attacked with weapons of mass destruction.
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The aspirations of Sunni Arabs should be met, ... the constitution is to serve everybody and not only one community of the Iraqi society.
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The American army will be very warmly welcomed in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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I will try my best to convince my colleagues that we must have a comprehensive policy towards those who are fighting the regime.
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I wish that all Iraqi Arabs, Kurds and others vote 'Yes' to the draft constitution which represents their ambition to build a democratic, federal, united and independent state,
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I think most of the Arab Sunnis have agreed to this constitution. And those who do not agree with it do not represent the Arab Sunnis,
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We will make any reasonable concession and use very waking hour to bring all, particularly the Sunni Arabs, into the fold.
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We will in the future, we will search and we will find some kind of chemical weapons and biological weapons,
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We will call today for holding the meeting on the 12th of this month because it is the last day that the constitution allows us to hold the meeting of the new parliament.
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The president is representing the sovereignty of Iraq. He has the right to oversee all common issues of Iraq.
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We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
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We on our part have reaffirmed our commitment to the unity, independence, sovereignty and security of Iraq.