IRAN/FRANCE/EGYPT: IRAQI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND OMANI MINISTER OF STATE VISIT IRAN/IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS IRAQ FACES IMMINENT GROUND WAR/ISLAMIC CONFERENCE ORGANISATION MINISTERS MEET

Record ID: 899057

  • Title: IRAN/FRANCE/EGYPT: IRAQI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND OMANI MINISTER OF STATE VISIT IRAN/IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS IRAQ FACES IMMINENT GROUND WAR/ISLAMIC CONFERENCE ORGANISATION MINISTERS MEET
  • Date: 21st February 1991
  • Summary: TEHRAN, IRAN (KOMEIJANI) SVS AND CUS SAADOUN HAMMADI SEATED WITH IRANIAN DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MOTTAKI (4 SHOTS) SV OMANI MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS YUSUF BIN ALAWI BIN ABDULLAH BEING GREETED BY IRANIAN FIRST DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ALI MOHAMMED BESHARATI AT AIRPORT SVS AND CU OMANI DELEGATION SEATED WITH BESHARATI AND TALKING (3 SHOTS)
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  • Location: TEHRAN, IRAN/PARIS, FRANCE/CAIRO, EGYPT
  • Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Topics: General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVACWUG0D4PBXPXBXAMDEP6HIDE4
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadi held talks in Tehran on Thursday (February 21) as Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz was expected in Moscow to discuss a Soviet peace plan.

    Iran's news agency IRNA said Hammadi probably briefed Iranian politicians on his talks in China on Wednesday and Thursday.Chinese leaders had voiced support for the Soviet Union's proposals but Chinese Premier Li Peng had told Hammadi Iraq should withdraw immediately from Kuwait.

    Iranian First Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Mohammed Besharati met Omani Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah who arrived in Tehran on Thursday.During the Omani Minister of State's visit to Tehran on September 19 last year both nations had agreed countries of the region should safeguard regional security.

    In Paris, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati warned that Iraq faced an imminent ground war in the Gulf within the next 24 to 48 hours if it did not accept Soviet peace proposals.

    Representatives of nine Islamic Conference Organisation (ICO) meeting in Cairo were expected to repeat an ICO call for an immediate, unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received the representatives before their meeting.
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