Kinnock calls for economic help for USSR

Title

Kinnock calls for economic help for USSR

Genre

Interview

TX Date

23 Aug 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:11:01

Description

Interview with Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock in the radio car at Broadcasting House who discusses the recent G7 summit, and calls on Prime Minster John Major to to help the Soviet Union financially, with assistance to move to a market economy and with food aid. And on the collapse of the attempted coup in the Soviet Union. Angela Rippon interviews.

Contributors

Neil Kinnock; Angela Rippon

Keywords

Revolutions; Politics; USSR; International relations; Political systems; Political reform; Foreign aid; Summits (meetings); John Major; Mikhail Gorbachev; Democratization; East West relations; Economic reform; Food aid; Economic and social development; Market economy; Economic aid

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