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
iraqi question singling
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.
angle issues minor
minor issues which make no sense from the angle of disarmament.
anxious anybody hurt page
I did not hurt anybody and my page is clean. So I am not anxious about the trial.
evidence provided saying solid
What Mr. Cheney is saying is baseless, ... He hasn't provided any solid evidence to back his allegations.
consequences matter sacrifices
no matter what the sacrifices and consequences are.
aggression confuse creating either justify pretext trying undermine
either creating a superficial pretext to justify the American aggression or he is trying to confuse and undermine the comprehensive review.
decided defense launch limited military operation people
We decided to launch a limited military operation in defense of our sovereignty, our people and their properties,
complete control ministry sector
We are all in control. Each one of us is in complete control over our ministry or sector of responsibility.
recognize relationship
We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.
concerns discussed friendly legitimate open
We discussed our legitimate concerns in a friendly and open manner.
decision lacks
The decision of the secretary-general lacks legitimacy. ... It also lacks fairness,
asking cooperation iraq provide
They are asking Iraq to provide more cooperation, and, OK, let them say that, you see, we are doing that,
iraq mass opinion public telling weapons wrongly
They are telling wrongly the American public opinion and the world that Iraq is reproducing weapons of mass destruction, ... That's not true.
far position
as far as our position is concerned, nothing has changed.