Tarek Aziz: Iraq will not give up its independence

Originally published October 14, 1999

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz stated yesterday that Iraq will not give up its national independence, whatever it costs.

The official Iraqi News Agency said, "Iraq will never give up its natural treasures to the USA, and it will also never give up its national independence."

Aziz added, "The Iraqi people resisted an unjust siege for 10 years in sequence," and that he is "ready to resist more and more."

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