Baghdad-INA
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Fouad Hussein confirmed today, Thursday, that the failure of the international community to shoulder its responsibilities towards the use of chemical weapons harmed the Iraqi people.
Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said in a statement, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): that on "the thirty-fifth anniversary of the painful catastrophe that affected the city of Halabja with the chemical bombardment by the graved regime, feelings of pain and sorrow are renewed, in a precedent that the world has rarely witnessed, including Its representation of a genocide that took the lives of more than five thousand innocent citizens, most of them women, children and the elderly, until it became a bleeding wound, not only in the conscience of Iraq, but of all humanity.
He explained, according to the statement, that "the failure of the international community at that time to assume its responsibilities regarding the use of internationally prohibited chemical weapons increased the levels of injustice that befell our honorable people of all affiliations."
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