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Secretary General Kofi Annan, the first to emerge from the hall, appeared taken aback, however.
"Now is not the time to pin blame and point fingers," he told reporters. Conceding that Mr. Zebari was "obviously entitled to his opinion," Mr. Annan said the United Nations had done as much for Iraq as it could under the circumstances and was prepared to do more. "Quite honestly," he reiterated, "now is not the time to hurl accusations and counteraccusations."
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"The time for that was a year ago, while you were still having your families tortured and killed just because they were Kurds," Annan pointed out. "Obviously we honestly believed that an oil-bearing Stalinist dictator would be hurt by sanctions and stop feeding your people into those plastic shredders. Now please, we prefer to be diplomatic here at the UN, no more of this blunt talk."