Nizar Hamdoon Quotes


[America] is like a big machine with hundreds of bolts and nuts and wheels, and you have to lubricate every part of it in order for the machine to work the way you want.


Citations

Nizar Hamdoon, 1985-1993, Iraq Representative to the United Nations, Interview with New York Times, January 8, 1998

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Nizar Hamdoon
Nizar Hamdoon
  • Born: July 4, 2003
  • Died: July 3, 2003
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Nizar Hamdoon was Iraq's ambassador to United States from 1984 to 1988 and the United Nations from 1992 to 1998. He was also the deputy Foreign Minister from 1988 to 1992 and under secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1999 to his retirement in 2001.