DESERT STORM: DAY 19 : Political
Iran President Hashemi Rafsanjani offered to meet Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for talks on ending the Persian Gulf War and said he is also willing to resume official contact with the United States to that end. The offer was met by a cool reaction from the Bush Administration.
United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar condemned the allied bombing raids that Jordan says have injured and killed Jordanian truck drivers on Iraq’s highway from Baghdad to Amman.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, in his first policy address to the Israeli Parliament since the Gulf War began, vowed that Israel would never take part in an international Middle East peace conference.
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