Word: tariq
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...relatives were permitted to visit the two in a Baghdad prison, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz hinted that the impasse might be resolved speedily "if the British government shows sympathy toward the hardship of the Iraqi people." Translation: Britain must free $923 million in Iraqi assets frozen since Desert Storm. London has signaled no deal, vowing to keep the funds until Iraq meets United Nations-mandated disarmament and political guidelines. Ride and Wainwright remain hostages...
Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions. With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims and, as Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed...
Saddam Hussein's top diplomat, Tariq Aziz, insisted Iraq had met the most important of its obligations under Gulf War cease-fire terms and accused some nations of keeping sanctions in place for purely political reasons...
Only a glint of thought to its founder, Ted Turner, a dozen years ago, CNN is now the world's most widely heeded news organization. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd insists on staying only at hotels that carry the network. Iraqi ministers Tariq Aziz and Nizar Hamdoon would not so much as lower the volume of the nonstop CNN in the background while granting interviews to John Wallach, foreign affairs editor of the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau -- not even, Wallach says, for the network's Hollywood Minute. When the name of his country was inadvertently omitted from a news quiz...
Sheehan also described an Arab summit shortly before the war, in which the foreign minister of Kuwait confronted Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz. According to Sheehan, Aziz responded that Kuwait should be careful because Iraq possessed documents which revealed that Kuwait and the U.S. had purposely goaded Iraq...