Hoshyar Zebari Quotes


The situation is not desperate or gloomy


Context

The attacks by insurgents had increased to a new high; the country was in the midst of a religious sectarian civil war with hundreds of Iraqis being tortured and killed each week by their fellows, the Iraqi police were found to be part of the sectarian death squads, oil production was not yet significantly restored nor was electrical and water utilities.


Citations

Hoshyar Zebari, Foreign Minister of Iraq, Assessment of the Iraq Insurgency at the time, Interview, CNN Late Edition, October 8, 2006

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Hoshyar Zebari
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Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari, also simply known as Hoshyar Zebari (also spelled Hoshyar Zubari/Zibari, Kurdish: Hişyar Zêbarî; born 1953) is an Iraqi politician who formerly served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq in 2014 and also as the Minister of Finance until 2016. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 until 2014.