Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the host, Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the most influential voice at the conference was that of Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal. Arriving in Islamabad, Saud emphasized that the conference must take a strong line on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which he said "threatened the independence of Muslim countries." He urged Islamic states to break diplomatic ties with Kabul, boycott the Moscow Olympics and provide assistance to the refugees. In the end, those points were included in the resolution, though only as recommendations. The final vote of the foreign ministers...
...most important of the missions was the one led by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. This team will be quickly followed to Riyadh by another, led by the State Department's Political and Military Affairs Director Reginald Bartholomew and Matthew Nimetz, the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance. Its aim: to negotiate the use of military facilities in Somalia, Kenya or, most likely, Oman, which could become an important U.S. military outpost in the 1980s. Middle East Negotiator Sol Linowitz visited Saudi Arabia last week...
...offer as "peanuts." Just how much Zia thinks he deserves is not yet known, but State Department officials have hinted at a Western aid pack, age of $1.5 billion, including the originally specified $400 million from the U.S. Other donors would include Britain, West Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia...
...regime that differs from that ideal is unacceptable." At the end of the loquacious jirga, as such a gathering of tribes is called, the only agreement the squabbling chieftains could reach was to appoint a delegation of three elderly mullahs for a fund-raising journey to Saudi Arabia...
...political sensitivities. The Pakistanis had asked Washington to delay action until after a special session of the Islamic Foreign Ministers' Conference, which opened in Islamabad over the weekend. Thirty-three Muslim nations, more than two-thirds of the 41-nation conference, responded to the urgings of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other strongly anti-Communist members. Purpose of the special session: to form a common response in protest against the Soviet takeover of a Muslim nation. As Carter told Democratic congressional leaders last week, Zia presumably wanted the opportunity to pressure Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich countries...