Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday night had implied that the eight-point plan announced then was a joint Baghdad-Moscow production, Foreign Ministry spokesman Vitali Churkin Friday morning coolly labeled it an Iraqi plan that the Soviets were still discussing and not exactly endorsing. Later on, after the Bush ultimatum, a senior Soviet diplomat said not only that Moscow knew that the allies would reject the eight-point plan but also that "they were right not to accept it." Sergei Grigoriev, deputy spokesman for Gorbachev, went further yet to state in interviews on Western TV that the allies' suspicions of Saddam might well...
...time, this calculation led Kuwait's government-in-exile to urge that thousands of American ground troops remain in Kuwait indefinitely. "That's changed," says a Kuwaiti diplomat. "We want U.S. military equipment in place, just in case, and an increased American naval presence, but security on the ground should be left to Arabs." Toward that goal, the Gulf Cooperation Council (the gulf states and Saudi Arabia) is busy concocting an enhanced military defense scheme they call "GCC Plus." Two army components of approximately 30,000 ground troops each will probably be deputized as trip- wire forces to be stationed...
...ruling family of the Emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, but to topple it. When the Emir fled the country, however, the same Shi'ites, including women in chadors, came out to demonstrate, brandishing photographs of the Emir. "You shouldn't be surprised at this," said a Western diplomat who lived in Kuwait. "In the Middle East, groups can change sides very quickly...
...family. Some resistance leaders are nearly as opposed to the Emir as they are to the Iraqis; if they manage to seize control of the capital before the allies arrive, they might demand democratic concessions from the ruling family. "The politics of liberation are very complex," said a Western diplomat. "It could take place on the terms of the Kuwaiti resistance." The ruling Sabah family has promised to respect the constitution of 1962 by holding parliamentary elections sometime after liberation. But the exiled opposition and resistance leaders are skeptical. The crown prince, Sheik Saad, has said he may install martial...
...noon yesterday, U.S. officials in Washington summoned an Iraqi diplomat and turned over the peace terms, saying Saddam must agree to them before a cease-fire could be called...