Turkey, the Middle East and the Gulf crisis

1992 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Hale
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Gulf Crisis

Western Europe and the Gulf Crisis: Towards a European Foreign Policy?

Politics ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Christine Poulon ◽  
Dimitris Bourantonis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gulf Crisis

If European union means anything, it means having a common foreign policy that amounts to more than expressions of pious platitudes. Europe cannot expect anyone to take it seriously if it leaves the United States to defend its interests in the Middle East. ( Independent, 3 August 1990)

The Gulf crisis and China's Middle East dilemma

1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Craig Harris
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Gulf Crisis

ICRC President in the Middle East

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (278) ◽  
pp. 437-438
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Foreign Nationals ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
Gulf Crisis ◽  
High Level

ICRC President Cornelio Sommaruga, accompanied by Mr. Angelo Gnaedinger, the Delegate General for the Middle East, was in the Middle East from 3 to 7 September 1990 for high-level talks with the Jordanian, Iraqi and Iranian authorities concerning the Gulf crisis. To quote President Sommaruga, the purpose of this mission was to achieve a “comprehensive humanitarian mobilization”. The mission itself was in keeping with the ICRC's mandate to act in the event of international armed conflict on the basis of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the institution's statutory right of initiative. It had four main objectives:• to provide protection and assistance, in both Iraq and Kuwait, to the various categories of civilians affected by the events;• to improve co-ordination and step up the ICRC's operation in Jordan in behalf of foreigners transiting through the country;• to examine possibilities of assisting foreign nationals crossing other borders (particularly into Iran);• to review the current situation with regard to the repatriation of Iraqi and Iranian prisoners of war.

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