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...indicating Iraq's "readiness to deal with" the basic U.N. resolution demanding withdrawal from Kuwait -- subject to farfetched conditions; one demanded reparations for allied bombing. But though Bush promptly denounced the proposal as a "cruel hoax," Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev proclaimed himself encouraged enough to invite Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to Moscow for new talks. Aziz arrived on Sunday, Feb. 17, by a roundabout route that underscored the total air supremacy the allies have achieved over Iraq. He was driven across the Iranian border, then helicoptered to Tehran, and flew from there to the Soviet capital...
...often turned into cruelty, a strong will bordering on implacable stubbornness." But he believed that, given enough time and incentive, the Iraqi leader would have withdrawn from Kuwait without the allies going to war. Primakov, who took part in last week's meetings between Gorbachev and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, is writing a book about his diplomacy titled The War Which Might Not Have Been...
...conversation with Saddam was also not easy, and yet there was every reason for me to sum it up in a cable to Moscow this way: "There are certain promising signs." After our conversation on the night of Feb. 12, Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz told me about the decision of the Iraqi leadership to send him to the Soviet Union to continue the contacts. Three days later, on the eve of Aziz's arrival in Moscow, the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq issued its sensational statement, acknowledging for the first time its readiness to pull Iraqi troops out of Kuwait...
About midnight Thursday, Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, flew in to Moscow for an urgent session with President Mikhail S. Gorbachev on a Soviet proposal to end Iraq's 64-month-old occupation of Kuwait. The Soviets emerged from the talks to announce they and the Iraqis agreed on a withdrawal plan...
...Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, met with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow and was presented with what a Kremlin spokesperson described only as a "concrete plan" for settlement of the gulf crisis. Aziz then flew back to Iran, and from there he will head overland to Iraq today. The Soviets said they expected a swift response from Saddam...