Word: hammadi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after Haig telephoned Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi from Manila, claimed his aides, the Iraqis also consented to drop the arms policies provision and soften the call for damages, thereby allowing the U.S. to vote for the resolution...
...performance. She insisted that in her negotiations with the Iraqis she had followed a National Security Council directive approved by Haig and Reagan. She contended that she never supported a resolution calling for sanctions or a review of arms policies toward Israel; she acknowledged that Haig had called Hammadi, but only after the negotiations had ended. Furthermore, Kirkpatrick claimed she talked at least twice a day with either Haig or Acting Secretary of State Walter Stoessel as well as with National Security Adviser Richard Allen. "I was determined not to be involved in an agreement which, once it was concluded...
...wording of the resolution had been personally hammered out by Kirkpatrick and Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi during three days of intense negotiations. Iraq had wanted to include a call for sanctions against Israel, but the U.S. made it clear that it would use its veto if they were mentioned. Instead, the approved resolution "strongly condemns" Israel for its raid on the reactor and urges it to pay damages to Iraq, which was "entitled to appropriate redress for the destruction it has suffered." There is nothing that could compel Israel to make such restitution, however, and Blum had already told...
This week the Arabs will ask the Security Council to condemn Israel. In addition to calling for sanctions, which almost certainly will be vetoed by Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U. N. Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi has demanded that the council order Israel to open its own atomic facilities for inspection and subject them to the safeguard system of the IAEA. Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum, on the other hand, has proposed making the Middle East a nuclear-free zone?a ploy that would require Arab states to recognize Israel as an equal partner...
...subsequent Iraqi invasion was merely an act of "preventive self-defense." The territory now occupied by Iraq constituted "the necessary positions for defense," Hammadi said, adding ominously that "there may be better positions forward." He insisted that there could be no withdrawal until Iran recognized all of Iraq's territorial claims, including sovereignty over the Shatt al Arab estuary. The only possible solution to the conflict, said the Iraqi diplomat, would be a U.N.-sponsored cease-fire immediately followed by negotiations to adjust the boundaries "in a final manner...