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World Service,11 Jan 2012,10 mins

Perez de Cuellar goes to Baghdad

Witness History

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In January 1991 the UN Secretary General tried to stop the first Gulf War. He made a last minute trip to Baghdad to try to persuade Saddam Hussein to withdraw Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Photo: VT Freeze Frame

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