Hoshyar Zebari
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"Hoshyar Zebari" is the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Iraq. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 until 2014. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zebari holds a masters degree in sociology from the University of Essex, England and studied political science in Jordan. He was the foreign spokesperson for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the 1990s and represented the party to both the United Kingdom and the United States.

He was appointed Foreign Minister of Iraq in 2003 by the Iraqi Governing Council and held the post for the Iraqi Interim Government, Iraqi Transitional Government and the Government of Iraq, 2006-2010/first permanent government.

In July 2012, \Zebari said that al-Qaeda in Iraq members went to Syria, where the militants previously received support and weapons.

On 11 July 2014, Zaberi was replaced as foreign minister by Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq's deputy prime minister, who assumed the position in an acting capacity, after Kurdish politicians withdrew from the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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All indications we are getting ... are encouraging and positive for a 'Yes' vote for this constitution. This would be really a major achievement, ... So my guess is, yes, it will be passed.

Nowhere are the goals of freedom, democracy and progress more at stake, ... We know our clear way forward, but we need your help. We need the help of every member nation and this organization to win this fight. We stick together, or we lose together.

We want a good, solid constitution. We don't want to force a deal on any group that they're uncomfortable with.

Left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Engaging in talks with everyone who believes in the political process.

Any premature departure of international troops would lead to chaos and the real possibility of a civil war in Iraq.

Talking about relations with the outside world and of handling them.

To protect the freedoms of the rest of the civilized world.

These statements are extremely regrettable... coming from a colleague of ours in government, ... a bedouin on a camel.