Word: aziz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will allowIraqto sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food and medicine for Iraqis who have been suffering under sanctions imposed after Saddam Hussein's1990 invasion of Kuwait. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said Iraq would not accept the deal because it wants the U.N. to completely eliminate the sanctions. In 1991, Iraq rejected a similar offer, complaining that it infringed on Iraq's sovereignty.TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelosays Saddam is unlikely to back down from that stance unless he is given a way to "save face." The U.N. wants to deflect criticism that Iraqi residents are suffering from...
...interview with TIME editors today, Aziz said he sees no reason why Iraq and the U.S. can't have normal relations: "We do not consider ourselves the enemies of the U.S. But this Administration says we are the enemy, while they are dealing with all the dictators of the world." While criticizing U.S. press coverage of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Aziz mused on Iraq's view of the difference between former President George Bush and President Clinton: "Bush knew what Iraq was -- and he decided to demonize Iraq. But President Clinton does not know Iraq, and his advisers...
When the diplomatic equivalent of a bar fight threatened to break out last week in the United Nations Security Council, Bill Clinton's most outspoken foreign-policy official unblinkingly held her own. The ruckus was touched off by Saddam Hussein's chief emissary, Tariq Aziz, who accused the U.S. of ignoring Iraq's good behavior and maliciously refusing to lift an economic embargo against Baghdad. Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright...
...daughter of a Czech diplomat who thundered against totalitarianism, Albright is most effective when taking the offensive. Three weeks ago, she referred to another speech by Aziz as "one of the most ridiculous delivered at the U.N. by Iraq." And in July, she reduced the U.S. message to Haiti's illegal military government to these words: "You can depart voluntarily and soon, or you can depart involuntarily and soon." But behind each appearance of a freewheeling attack lies careful prep work. She assiduously maintains her Washington power base, shuttling from New York City as many as five times a week...
...sudden belligerence. Intelligence sources told TIME that the senior Iraqi leadership split over the decision to shift from a diplomatic offensive to a military one. Hawks on Saddam's revolutionary council persuaded Saddam to send the soldiers south. But a State Department official says Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz "is not happy with this muscle flexing. He thinks it's counterproductive and it just gets the back up of the international community." A U.N. official standing near both Aziz and Hamdoon when the news of troop movements came says, "They had a look of shock on their faces. Hamdoon actually...