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Article: Russia's olive branch to Iraq raises US hackles
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 1994
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PUBLIC clashes between the United States and Russia in the
United Nations Security Council have produced flashbacks of Cold
War rhetoric, but no real damage to the new way the old superpowers
do business. In the Security Council this week, the Russian Foreign
Minister, Andrei Kozyrev, employed rhetorical techniques that have
not been seen for some time. In making a case for the step-by-step
easing of economic sanctions on Iraq, he accused "some colleagues"
of making "hasty, inadequate and misguided" statements of Baghdad's
intentions.
In reply, never mentioning Russia by name, the US envoy,
Madeleine Albright, called on the Council to "totally reject"
Moscow's approach. Saddam Hussein ...