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FCO 8/645

UK: sterling reserves, 1967-1968

This file relates to the financial crisis of sterling and its impact in Kuwait on the financial and banking system.

FCO 8/644

UK: sterling reserves, 1967

This file relates to the financial crisis of sterling, and its impact on the financial and banking system in Kuwait. It contains correspondence concerning: The Kuwait Foreign Trading, Contracting and Investment Company’s withdrawal of its loan offer to Intra Bank in Lebanon Beginning of the banking crisis affecting British Bank of the Middle East (BBME).

FO 1016/719

Public and press opinion on Iraq-Kuwait crisis, 1961

This file relates to the claims of ownership over Kuwait made by the Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qasim, his subsequent plans to invade and reaction in Kuwait to these developments.

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