Adnan Pachachi
Adnan Pachachi
Adnan al-Pachachi or Adnan Muzahim Ameen al-Pachachiis a veteran Iraqi politician and diplomat. Pachachi was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1959 to 1965 and foreign minister of Iraq from 1965 to 1967 during the Six-Day War with Israel; he again served as permanent representative to the UN from 1967 to 1969. After 1971, he spent a long period in exile. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Pachachi has been an important figure in Iraqi politics, often described...
NationalityIraqi
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 May 1923
CountryIraq
If we can elect a speaker tomorrow then the Parliament can start functioning normally. People feel they have been let down and that is eroding their faith in the whole political process.
Perhaps we should make it into a school or a hospital. It symbolized the mentality of Saddam Hussein, and then it also became the symbol of everything that went wrong during the occupation.
Leaders of political parties have agreed to postpone parliament. There are still some issues that have not been resolved yet.
Many people in Iraq, that segment of Iraqi opinion, believes that there should be a determined effort to see whether in fact that elections are feasible,
You can imagine how everybody is scared. Finally it's sinking in that something has to be done. You can't let this thing go completely unattended.
We only had Kalashnikov rifles. Now we have more powerful weapons.
We will have at the end of this process a government that derives its legitimacy from the free desire of the Iraqi people,
It's quite possible, also, that the legal proceedings against him may be postponed for a while if he complies with the other conditions. This is what I heard.
The two main issues are security and the necessity for an inclusive election.
It will have due process and the right of appeal and be an open trial with attorneys and lawyers, something that is really unprecedented in Iraq's recent history and quite a contrast from the courts that Saddam himself established in Iraq to try his enemies,
We were disappointed, naturally, because of the very small, low turnout in many areas, ... It made it impossible for us to be represented on the National Assembly.
We found him tired, haggard, and obviously a spent force,
We found him obviously tired and haggard, unrepentant, even defiant, justifying crimes saying he was a just but firm ruler, our answer was that he was unjust ruler responsible for death of thousands of people.
There are other volunteers who take turns, up to 50 of us here.