It is true that when the Iraq-Iran war first broke out, in September of last year, the Se- curity Council held a number of meetings which consid- ered Iraq's aggression for territorial gains, and the Secre- tary-General even appointed a special representative t:.> offer his good offices in the searc…
Mr. President, you have ap- pealed to us, but I do not think I am in need of any appeal. I am in the midst of a statement which is being constantly disturbed and obstructed by the uncivilized be- haviour of a certain representative-who will now wish to raise a point of order on my use of the word "u…
And now to the other side of the Iraqi coin: Iraq's external behaviour. In September of last year, Iraq launched a blatant war of aggression against Iran. That war has continued unabated for the last 14 months, even if it has tended to drop from the headlines and has never made the agenda of the Ass…
It is gratifying to see that the rank of obstruction has now been upgraded. But I should like to remind the representative of Iraq that we are deal- ing with the situation in the Middle East. As far as I know, his country is part of the Middle East-not of the Arab East, as he calls it-and the situat…
As I said, according to Law- rence Minard, writing in Forbes Magazine on 18 August 1980, "President Saddam Hussein has emerged as one of the most brutally repressi...e rulers in recent history." Representatives will recall that not long before the pub-
53. And that was by no means the end of this t…
The representative of Iraq is ap- parently bent on obstructing this statement. Could you kindly inform her, Mr. President, that a point of order is supposed to be a point of order. She has nothing to con- tribute on points of order. She is just trying ~o disturb and obstruct this statement. Would yo…
The present Iraqi leader, Sad- dam Hussein al Takriti, is the very model of a modem tyrant. According to Lawrence Minard, writing in Forbes Magazine on 18 August 1980, "President Saddam Hus- sein has emerged as one of the most brutally repressive rulers in recent history." Representatives will recal…
It is intolerable that under the guise of points of order, which I rightly called "points of disorder", the representative of Iraq should try to inter- rupt every other sentence of my statement. It is already quite obvious that what she is claiming is immunity for the tyrant of Iraq from being menti…
On the eastern flank of the Middle East we have Iraq. In the last two decades its rulers have come to power in the most brutal and bloody of fashions. In 1958 King Faisal of Iraq was horribly murdered and the multilated bodies of his advisers were dragged through the streets of Baghdad. The various …
I should like to thank the repre- sentative of the Palestinian Arab State of Jordan for his remark.
23. On the east flank of the Middle East we have Iraq-
As we all know, the agenda item before us is "The situation in the Middle East". I can readily understand the agitation of the representative of Iraq. She will hear more about her country, which is one of the countries in the Middle East. I have not quoted yet, so I do not know what quotations she w…
By the end of the current debate the Assembly will have completed its annual double- feature performance on the items entitled, in the jargon of the United Nations, the "Question of Palestine" and "The situation in the Middle East". These two features are not played at the behest of a clamouring pub…
Mr. President, we are at the stage of explanations of vote. This is not supposed to be the time to exercise the right of reply. I should be grateful if you would instruct the Permanent Representative of the Palestinian Arab State of Jordan accordingly.
The representative of Iraq ap- parently thinks that whoever has the last word has won the debate. That may apply to altercations in the market squares and bazaars, but we do not believe it applies to bodies such as this.
291. In speaking in exercise of the right of reply, the representative of Iraq…
Iraq's initiative, which gave birth to the report of the group of experts, must be seen against the background of Iraq's own quest for nuclear capability.
215. I have already provided a detailed description of Iraq's attempt to go nuclear in my statements in the Se- curity Council, tb,; plenary mee…
Last year, at the thirty-fifth ses- sion of the General Assembly, Israel joined the consensus in support of resolution 35/174 despite certain reserva- tions entemined by us. We did so in order to demonstrate goodwill and support for the proposal to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle …
The General Assembly is now considering and taking action on 22 items which deal with disarmament and international security matters. All these items were allocated by the General Committee of the General Assembly to the First Committee. In the course of its 53 meetings the First Committee discussed…
Yet again the General Assembly is going through its perennial exercises on what is called here the question of Palestine. These exercises have long since been emptied of meaningful content. They have be- come ritualistic. And for all the rigmarole involved in adopting a steadily increasing number of…
The Assembly has .surely had enough of the Iraqi delegation's bluster. By their own ad- mission, their Government will not answer the questions which are ringing in the Assembly's ears, because they cannot, or rather dare not. Despite protestations to the contrary, no one here has been fooled. Every…
Last night I confronted the Iraqi representative with a series of questions to which Israel had been demanding aqswers ever since Iraq indig- nantly brought its bruised feelings over the loss of its re- actor before the international community. With what he apparently believed was a great show of sa…
