Word: tariq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both countries sent their Foreign Ministers to the United Nations in New York City to discuss how to put into effect Security Council Resolution 598, which calls for a U.N.-monitored cease-fire. The two officials, Ali Akbar Velayati of Iran and Tariq Aziz of Iraq, met separately with U.N. Secretary- General Javier Perez de Cuellar. But the peace process foundered over Iraq's demand for direct talks, which Iran refused for the moment to accept...
...officials moved quickly to get peacekeeping machinery in place. Perez de Cuellar invited Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to meet with him in New York this week to discuss cease-fire arrangements. Two U.N. teams were preparing to make separate visits to Tehran and Baghdad. One will investigate the status of some 70,000 prisoners of war held by the two sides. The other, led by Norwegian Lieut. General Martin Vadset, commander of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, will arrange details of a cease-fire. The cease-fire team's report, Perez...
Signs of battle scar the road from Basra to Baghdad as well. A dozen immobilized Iraqi tanks rest beside the highway, some with gaping holes in their armor, others mere burned-out hulks. The ruined tanks are a powerful reminder of U.S. arms sales to Iran. Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz attributes his country's equipment losses largely to American shipments of TOW antitank and Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Tehran...
Brigadier General Tariq Rafi, commander of the federal Airport Security Force, told The Associated Press yesterday the four hijackers were being interrogated at an army camp outside Karachi...
...once again used chemical weapons against its enemy. Physicians in London, Vienna, Munich and other West European cities confirmed that about 50 Iranian soldiers flown to their medical centers for treatment had been exposed to mustard gas. In Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz bluntly informed Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz of U.S. objections to the use of chemical weapons, noting that Iraq is a signatory of the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which prohibits them...