Title

Britain to supply USSR with food aid

Genre

Interview

TX Date

10 Sep 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:04:59

Description

Interview with Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd on food supply and distribution problems in the Soviet Union and the food aid Britain will be supplying. Also comments on political reform in the USSR and recognition of the Baltic States as independent countries. Sue Jameson interviews him in Moscow where UK food chiefs are visiting to see what can be done.

Contributors

Douglas Hurd; Sue Jameson

Keywords

UK; Great Britain; USSR; International relations; Political reform; Foreign aid; Moscow; Mikhail Gorbachev; Food aid; Baltic States

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