Jose Maria Aznar
Jose Maria Aznar
José María Alfredo Aznar López; born 25 February 1953) served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is a director of News Corporation...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth25 February 1953
CountrySpain
increases lack markets message taking wrong
Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.
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We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
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Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.
history march occupies
March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
west
We in the West should stand by our core principles.
It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.
The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten.
avoid existing friction groups neglected
It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.
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I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.
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I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think.
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The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
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Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.
responsibility thinking government
But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.