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From:

JR Young

Date:

HKB 020/20

19 NOV 1990

Emergency Unit

13 October 1990

Miso Marosin

Mr Furyppy

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PS/Mrs Chalker PS/Mr Waldegrave PS/Mr Lennox-Boyd PS/Mr Garel-Jones PS/Lord Caithness PS/PUS

Mr McLaren

Mr Broomfield

Mr Boyd

Mr Weston

Mr Bayne

Mr Fairweather

Miss Spencer

Mr Goulden

Mr Beamish

Mrs Sutherland

Mr Blatherwick Mr Gore-Booth Mr Greenstock Mr Tait

Mr Hemans Mr Kerr

Mr Slater-

Mr Ling

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Mr Burns

HAD

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Mr Miles

Mr Mower, News Dept Ms Evans, UND

Mr Muir, Info. Dept

Mr Denne, Consular, EU Mr Marshall, EU

Correspondence &

Briefing Unit, EU

PS

HOSTAGES IN KUWAIT AND IRAQ: ACTION TAKEN TO SECURE THEIR RELEASE

1.

I attach an unclassified note for use with enquirers about the action we have taken to seek the release of British hostages in Kuwait and Iraq. The note deliberately avoids naming individual governments or international statesmen we have contacted (principally President Kaunda, King Hussein and the Soviet Government). It is tempting to

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