Hosheyr Hoshyar Zebari This is Me

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1. 1. Iraq Media Developments Newsletter

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   Published on: 5/6/2007   Last Visited: 11/11/2007

   Yesterday Iraq's foreign minister, Hosheyr Zebari, denounced the Arabic satellite channel, al-Jazeera, which has broadcast video recordings it received from insurgents.
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   Word of the new commission came one day after Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari lashed out at Al-Jazeera and other pan-Arab broadcasters, accusing them of "one-sided and biased coverage of the situation in Iraq." In an interview with Al-Jazeera, he said: "We will not allow some people to hide behind the slogan of freedom of the press and media."

2. 2. www.metimes.com

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   Published on: 4/18/2007   Last Visited: 4/18/2007

   NOT SO BAD: Iraqi foreign minister Hosheyr Zebari told journalists at a Geneva press conference April 17 that, while exceedingly difficult, the situation in his country was 'not as bad as all the media images.'
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   Nevertheless, Iraq's foreign minister Hosheyr Zebari told journalists at the end of the sessions Tuesday that, while exceedingly difficult, the situation was "not as bad as all the media images, otherwise we'd all seek asylum here." Zebari said that one of the international conference's most significant accomplishments was "that we didn't get into the blame game, and not to politicize this conference was a big achievement."
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   Zebari said Baghdad had launched a new effort to work for national reconciliation that would include a fair distribution of wealth in the country, and the eventual return of Iraqis to their homes.
   
   The Iraqi foreign minister also argued that if foreign troops left the country now, Iraqis would be divided, "terror groups" would take over, and the country would become another Afghanistan. Nobody would be immune from the spillover of the problems, he added.
   
   Zebari said, however, that a withdrawal timetable of sorts was already in place, since "legally, every six months I can go to the UN Security Council and ask the foreign troops to leave." In addition, foreign troops would also have to pull out if Iraq did not explicitly go to the UN at the end of the year to ask for a renewal of the mandate, he indicated.

3. 3. www.metimes.com

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   Published on: 4/20/2007   Last Visited: 4/21/2007

   Earlier this week, Iraq's foreign minister Hosheyr Zebari said in Geneva he expected the UN Security Council's five permanent members (or P-5 - the US, UK, Russia, China, and France), and the G-8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain, and the US) will also attend the next "neighbors meeting" to be hosted by Egypt at the Red Sea resort during May 3-4, "to discuss Iraq's security and stability."