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Radio 4,28 Sep 1990,15 mins

A unanimous United Nations

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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The Soviet foreign minister denounces the action of Saddam Hussein to the United Nations, and the first, and last, unanimous vote reached by the Council in June, 1950.

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