EEC aid for Kurdish refugees

Title

EEC aid for Kurdish refugees

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

9 Apr 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:03:44

Description

John Fraser reports from Luxemburg on the EEC agreeing to a 105 million pound aid package for the Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and a safe haven for Kurds inside Iraq as proposed by Prime Minister John Major. The safe haven will now have to be agreed by the UN. Includes speech by Major. For FM breakfast show.

Contributors

John Major; John Fraser

Keywords

Ethnic groups; Foreign aid; Persecution; Summits (meetings); Political refugees; Iraq; Saddam Hussein; Kurds; International aid

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