TARIQ AZIZ - IRAQ

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06498251
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2016
• Case Number: F-2015-01885
• Publication Date: December 1, 1988

Approved for Release: 2016/02/10 C06498251
UNCLASSIFIED
IRAQ
Tariq AZIZ
(Phonetic: ahZEEZ)
Deputy Prime Minister (since 1979)
Member, Revolutionary Command Council (since 1977)
Minister of Foreign Affairs (since 1983)
Tariq Aziz is Iraq's most visible foreign policy maker. He provides input on international
affairs at regular meetings of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), Iraq's governing
body. He heads his country's delegation to peace talks with Iran and presents his
government's positions before the world press. He is highly regarded in the Arab
world and in the West for his eloquence and his pragmatic policy views.
Aziz was born in 1936. After receiving a degree in English from the University
of Baghdad in 1958, he began serving as a propagandist for the Be/05th Party. In the
late 1950s and early 1960s he edited three different party papers. Elected a candidate
member of the Regional Command, the party's highest body, in 1974, he became a full
member three years later. He was Minister of Information during 1974=77.
Aziz is a Chaldean Christian. He Speaks excellent English. Married, he has
children.
LDA M 88-16307
12/01/1988
Approved for Release: 2016/02/10 C06498251