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Talabani: Iraq not compelled to pay debts
accumulated in Saddam's reign
6.7.2006
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BAGHDAD, July 6 ,
-- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said his country
was not compelled to pay back debts accumulated
during the reign of the ousted regime.
"We are not responsible for the debts of Iraq during
the reign of dictatorship," the president said
during a joint press conference held Wednesday
evening with the UN delegation headed by Deputy
Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown.
Talabani added, "International law stipulates that
countries that helped dictatorships or accumulated
debts through cooperation with these regimes have no
right to demand that democracies set up after the
fall of the dictatorships pay those debts."
The president said that his country was preparing a
report on this issue, but said that "we do not want
to use the article in the law against countries we
seek to cooperate with and are responding positively
with this issue." |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd
Photo: Military |
He added that in the case of Arab states, he had
requested that debts be written off and that "this
is what I requested during my visit to Kuwait... I
explained that we would have been committed to
paying back debts if Saddam was still in rule, but
now that he is gone, we ask you to help Iraq."
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