Tariq Aziz
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"Tariq Aziz" was the Foreign Minister (1983 – 1991) and Deputy Prime Minister (1979 – 2003) of Iraq and a close advisor of former President of Iraq/President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were Activism/activists for the then-banned Ba'ath Party/Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. Although he is an Arab Nationalist he is in fact an ethnic Assyrian people/Assyrian, and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Because of security concerns, Saddam rarely left Iraq, so Aziz would often represent Iraq at high-level diplomatic summits. What the United States wanted, he averred, was not "regime change" in Iraq but rather "region change". He said that the George W. Bush administration/Bush Administration's reasons for war were "oil and Israel."

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Enough is enough. The sanctions have been imposed for reasons which don't exist any more and it's time to lift those sanctions.

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Everybody in the world should know that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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It is in essence a breakthrough.

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Let them tell us and the world that their concerns are genuine and that they are not using them as a pretext to attack Iraq -- if those concerns are genuine we can find a solution to that.

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This can't be done by piecemeal arrangements or solutions. It has to be done within a comprehensive context that means a serious easing of sanctions or a complete lifting of sanctions.

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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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If they finish their work after 25 days, what are they going to do? They will leave, ... And if they want to come back, they are welcome.

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These signs are the beginning of the collapse of the embargo, ... America might have its opinion, but it cannot impose its will on all.

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Available as long as it is necessary for the Iraqi authorities to continue this dialogue.

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