| Description | File of correspondence - both copies and originals - containing some 250 letters to and from Jalal Talabani, including official communications addressed to the PUK, the United Nations and western politicians, as well as personal letters to Kurdish politicians, PUK members and others. These include a letter from British Foreign Secretary Peter Hain (2000), a letter from Talabani to Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson on the murder of Olaf Palme (1986), correspondence between Talabani, Dr Fuad Masoum, Dr Kemal Fuad, Omer Dababa and Berhem Salih, a letter to the leader of the Syrian Communist Party Khalid Begdash (1983), letters to Ayatollah Khomeini (June 1979) and Ayatollah Hosein Ali Montazeri (1986), as well as an open letter from Jalal Talabani for the Iraqi Kurdistan Front with copies of numerous replies from British politicians (1988) |