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Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Iraq/Kuwait: UN Security Council") [MT "most disturbed... [by] what she interprets as a most unfortunate weakening in the American position" - rejects Soviet notion of "graduated response" in enforcing embargo] [declassified Jul 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/3077 f160
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 9pp
Themes: Trade, Energy, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Middle East), Foreign policy (International organizations), Defence (general), British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union, Defence (Gulf War, 1990-91)