IRAQ-KUWAIT: SITUATION REPORT #554 - POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS: GORBACHEV STATEMEN

Created: 2/9/1991

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president gorbachevtatement today expresslnc >rn that war in tha culf la taking on an inpetus of lta own and callinguick and to thaccording to tass. ha atatad allied ailitary operations threaten to exceed their aandate and called iraq'a attempts to draw xerael into the conflict "extraaalyorbachev reiterated soviet support for un resolutions and eald ba vaaa peraonal envoy to baghdad to aeet with saddaa. yma

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ah-lfoffered to aeet with iraqi president seddsm hueeyn.

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