Fischer: Breaking into Iraqi embassy is a violation to international law

Originally published August 22, 2002

The German foreign minister Yushka Fischer said yesterday in Bonn that the breaking into the Iraqi Germany in Germany and seizing of the hostages in it is an acceptable act and a violation of the international law and an act which is categorically rejected by all means.

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