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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We hope that by the end of 2006, our security forces are up to the level of taking responsibility from many American troops, with complete agreement with Americans,
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We have decided to support the draft and agreed to some changes which we think necessary for the country's ties with the Arab League, as Iraq is a founding member in the AL,
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We want a prime minister who can gather all the political blocs around him, so that the government would be one of national unity.
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We do not have one party which got the majority. We have different groups, different parties.
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Therefore, it is right to work for ending this regime whose hands are red with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
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The regional plots that pushed some Kurdish parties against other Kurdish parties are about to come to an end.
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We honor the sacrifices the United States has made.
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We reached agreement today for parliament to open on March 16.
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We should have a consensus between the three groups -- Shiites, Kurds and the Sunnis,
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We are not living in a country where a party with a two-vote majority in Parliament can rule - this is not Iraq. If the Shiites and Kurds will cooperate, there will be a majority, but this is not right, and not the correct way to rule the country.
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We are not single people coming to power as individuals. We are representing huge forces of this country.
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Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.
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Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.