Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, relations are expanding outside the Arab world. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited Baghdad two months ago to sign a friendship pact. After his visit to Paris last week, Takriti announced his ambition "to see Franco-Iraqi relations raised to the level of relations with the Soviet Union." Diplomatic relations between Baghdad and Washington were severed after the Six-Day War, and 13 months ago, Iraq confiscated the U.S. embassy to house its foreign ministry. But in September, two U.S. foreign service officers will arrive in Baghdad to take over the American-interests section of the Belgian embassy, a task...
Foreign Minister Abdul Baki flew to Moscow and huddled with Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other Soviet ministers. When the talks ended last week, the Russians and Iraqis had decided to negotiate bilateral economic agreements, but they failed to announce what Iraq wants: an oil deal. In Paris the French Cabinet considered, but did not immediately accept, Iraq's offer of a special arrangement with the French company that is part owner of the oilfields. Beirut newspapers began carrying front-page ads offering Iraqi oil at "realistic and competitive prices...
...face of legal threats from one of the world's most powerful consortiums, IPC, which is owned by Standard Oil (New Jersey), Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, British Petroleum, Compagnie Franchise des Petroles and minority investors. The four senior partners are influential enough to block sales of Iraqi crude to other major oil companies. IPC also stands ready to act under international law to sequester cargoes of "stolen" Iraqi oil. British Petroleum has already seized tankers carrying oil from its wells in Libya, which were nationalized earlier this year...
Ostensibly, the principal reason for Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's five-day visit to Iraq last week was to join Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein Takriti at ceremonies marking the start of production at the rich North Rumeila oilfield 240 miles south of Baghdad. Developed with $192 million of Soviet assistance, the field, which was expropriated from Western oil companies in 1961, is expected to produce 40 million tons of oil a year by the end of the decade. Some of the petroleum will be sent to the Soviet Union to supplement its diminishing domestic supplies...
...another with Syria, is a departure from the former Soviet practice of dealing with the Arab states primarily through Cairo. It also gives the Russians a desired window on the Persian Gulf. Kosygin had scarcely taken off for home when a Soviet naval flotilla dropped anchor in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on a goodwill visit...