Foreign hostages to be released from Iraq

Title

Foreign hostages to be released from Iraq

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

6 Dec 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:33

Description

Peter Russell reports from Westminster for FM Breakfast on a cautious welcome in Parliament for the Iraqi’s decision to free foreign hostages and debate over what was ersponsible for the decision. Includes speeches in the Commons by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd; Conservative Peter Viggers; Labour’s international spokesman, Gerald Kaufman.

Contributors

Gerald Kaufman; Douglas Hurd; Peter Viggers; Peter Russell

Keywords

UN; Economic sanctions; Hostages; Military operations; Kuwait; Iraq; Gulf War (1990-1991); Saddam Hussein

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