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Spotlight QATAR 06/04/1994 THE GULF "LONER" A violent dispute flared up between Quatar foreign minister Hamad Ben Jassem al-Thani and his Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian counterparts during the 50th session of the Arab League which took place in Cairo on 27-29 March. The fight, in fact, [...]
IRAQ 17/02/1993 NIZAR HAMDOON Nizar Hamdoon was recently named permanent representative of Iraq to the UN in New-York, replacing Abul-Amir al-Anbari who will now [...]
Spotlight ITALY 08/04/1992 ARMS SALES: THE CASALEE MYSTERY The trial in early 1991 in Brescia of the Valsellameccanotecnica (VSMT), the Fiat subsidiary accused of having sold nine million mines to Iraq between 1982 and 1986 (a $180 million contract), shed light on a company formerly unknown among arms [...]
