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От	Николай Манвелов
К	All
Дата	19.03.2003 17:31:14
Рубрики	Современность; Локальные конфликты;

Сообщение про Тарика Азиза

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Iraqi opposition in Bulgaria "trying to verify" Tariq Aziz murder
allegation.
318 words
19 March 2003
16:10
BBC Monitoring European
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Text of report in English by Bulgarian news agency BTA web site
Sofia, 19 March: The Iraqi opposition is trying to verify reports indicating
that Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz may have been killed on his way
to the Kurdish part of the country.
Ismail Zayer of the Iraqi opposition broke the news Wednesday [19 March],
interviewed for the Blitz show of bTV/Radio Free Europe.
Zayer expressed hope that this news will be confirmed by an independent
source by Thursday [20 March]. "The Iraqi opposition has reasons to believe
that Aziz has attempted to escape into the Kurdish region of Iraq," Zayer
said.
"We have received no confirmation of such information," Iraqi Charge
d'Affaires in Sofia Yahya Mahdi told BTA.
"This is not true. Mr Tariq Aziz is a well-known patriot, he will stay in
Iraq and he will be in Iraq till his last moment," the charge d'affaires
said on Radio NET. He believes that the murder allegation is "cheap
propaganda against Iraq."
"They are aggressors and have no grounds whatsoever in terms of
international law or the practice of international relations," the diplomat
said in connection with the planned military operation against his country.
"We have no concrete information about Tariq Aziz," Bulgarian Deputy Foreign
Minister Lyubomir Ivanov said on Blitz.
"We have lost the direct channels of information from Iraq because we have
pulled out our embassy officers from that country. We are now trying to
obtain information by cooperating with other services," Ivanov said.
Asked whether Bulgaria has received additional requests relating to a war
against Iraq, the deputy foreign minister said he does not expect any new
requests, adding that Bulgaria will honour the commitments which it assumed
under the 7 February resolution of the National Assembly.
Source: BTA web site, Sofia, in English 19 Mar 03.
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От	Олег Грановский
К	Николай Манвелов (19.03.2003 17:31:14)
Дата	19.03.2003 21:05:37

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Вице-премьер Ирака Тарик Азиз провел пресс-конференцию, встретившись с журналистами ведущих мировых СМИ в Багдаде.

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Олег Грановский, http://www.waronline.org