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 this constitution will be accepted by all Iraqis and that it will be for everybody. We are optimistic ...
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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 do not have one party which got the majority. We have different groups, different parties.
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We have to renew ties with Turkey to remove the chill in relations in the past.
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We need American troops to intimidate our neighbors.
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We need to unite and maintain peace as this incident can divert Iraq from the constitution to violence,
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Unlike Pakistan, which is a Muslim but not Arab country, Iraq is an active member in the Arab League and committed to the decisions of the Arab summit in Beirut,
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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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We have no war among Iraqis, ... We have some thousands criminals who came from outside of the country, fighting against our people, trying to kill civilians and innocent people.
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The presidency and the cabinet must both take part in running the state, like foreign policy and the finance, defense, interior and oil ministries.
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We've done our best to dispel Ankara's concerns over Kurdish independence movements.
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We need to ignore some petty or nonessential or marginal issues in order to achieve national unity for Iraq, including the unity of the opposition.
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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.