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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If anybody can have a magic solution, so that all these issues are being dealt with together, equitably and reasonably, we are ready to find such a solution and we are ready to co-operate with the United Nations.
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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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If there is a solution which maintains Iraq's sovereignty, dignity and legitimate rights and prevents aggression, we are ready,
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My message to the United States is that it should hear the voice of the international public opinion,
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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.
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We discussed our legitimate concerns in a friendly and open manner.
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We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.
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The decision of the secretary-general lacks legitimacy. ... It also lacks fairness,
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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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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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I did not hurt anybody and my page is clean. So I am not anxious about the trial.
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What Mr. Cheney is saying is baseless, ... He hasn't provided any solid evidence to back his allegations.
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Since this is the wish of the American administration to perpetuate, to prolong the current situation to keep the sanctions ... you are serving the American policy,
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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.