| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and digest bulletins relating to Iraq's relations with the USSR. Items include statistical tables on Soviet foreign trade 1986-88 and 1990, reports of a visit to Iraq by Vladimir Polyakov from the Soviet foreign ministry and other reciprocal meetings, an International Herald Tribune article on widening relations between Russia and Iraq (5 February 1980), a report from the Guardian (18 February 1991) on Gorbachev's meeting with Tariq Aziz, press reports on Iraq's response to the removal (and subsequent reinstatement) of Gorbachev during the August coup of 1991, details of Russia's supply of short-range missiles to Iraq (1988) and Iraqi attempts to get Russia to support an arms embargo against Iran, a press report by MEED correspondent Ivan Berenyi on the transfer of former KGB funds to Hungary and the Middle East, plus reports on the welfare of thousands of Soviet workers and citizens stranded in Iraq during the Gulf War and the negotiations between Iraq and Russia regarding their release, |