Tariq Aziz
Tariq Aziz
Tariq Azizwas an Iraqi Foreign Ministerand Deputy Prime Ministerand a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. Although he was an Arab nationalist he was in fact an ethnic Assyran, and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 April 1936
CityTel Keppe, Iraq
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Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction,
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If there is a solution which maintains Iraq's sovereignty, dignity and legitimate rights and prevents aggression, we are ready,
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I have to condemn strongly the statement of President Clinton about his government's plans to overthrow the government of Iraq, ... This is a flagrant violation of U.N. resolutions and international law.
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I did not hurt anybody and my page is clean. So I am not anxious about the trial.
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Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people.
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either creating a superficial pretext to justify the American aggression or he is trying to confuse and undermine the comprehensive review.
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Iraq will continue to explain its just case, ... and this resolution will not scare it.
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If they finish their work after 25 days, what are they going to do? They will leave, ... And if they want to come back, they are welcome.
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Let them tell us and the world that their concerns are genuine and that they are not using them as a pretext to attack Iraq -- if those concerns are genuine we can find a solution to that,
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available as long as it is necessary for the Iraqi authorities to continue this dialogue.
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We provided logistical support ... So what we did was a responsible, positive, limited operation to help our people.
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We are all in control. Each one of us is in complete control over our ministry or sector of responsibility.
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We discussed our legitimate concerns in a friendly and open manner.
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We are not the kind that will surrender to them (coalition forces) just to live a wretched life for two or three years.