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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We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.
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We discussed our legitimate concerns in a friendly and open manner.
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We decided to launch a limited military operation in defense of our sovereignty, our people and their properties,
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I don't say Iraq didn't make mistakes against this or that, but everybody has committed mistakes, ... If we all apologized to each other for all the mistakes we have committed, then we will be ready ... because apologizing is not a shame between brothers.
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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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My message to the United States is that it should hear the voice of the international public opinion,
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I would like to reconfirm what we have said before ... that U.S. and British efforts to impose a new unfair resolution will never succeed,
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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 provided logistical support ... So what we did was a responsible, positive, limited operation to help our people.
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We don't express condolences to a government that is attacking Iraqi people on a daily basis,
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An attack on Iraq will not be an American picnic. Instead, it will be a fierce fight where Americans will suffer losses that have not been seen for decades.
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agreed on a new practical approach within the context of disarmament, and we hope we put it in the right course and finish it very soon.
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America ... wants to control the oil in Iraq,