Jordan King Plans Pre-Helsinki Talk With Gorbachev
King Hussein will meet Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev for talks on the Persian Gulf crisis ahead of the U.S.-Soviet summit in Finland this weekend, sources close to the Jordanian government said Sunday.
The sources said the meeting will take place in Moscow before Gorbachev meets President Bush in Helsinki on Sunday. They could not give a specific date.
The king is on an international mission to try to find a diplomatic solution to the gulf crisis. He toured five North African capitals before going on to Madrid and London. He is scheduled to visit Paris and Bonn this week.
Jordan, one of Iraq’s closest allies, is seen in the West as a weak link in the economic blockade against Iraq, ordered by the United Nations after Baghdad’s Aug. 2 seizure of Kuwait.
King Hussein said in London on Friday that his country is abiding by the U.N. sanctions.
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