Cuban mediation in the Iraq-Iran war
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The aim of this study is to present an aspect of Cuba’s internationalist foreign policy when the island nation tried to help a third world state resolve a local conflict through mediation instead of the military support. Cuba’s role as a mediator in the 1980-1988 war between Iraq and Iran was an example of this. This form of intervention of the island nation was not unprecedented, because it had already attempted to mediate between the opposing Ethiopia and Somalia in 1977, as in the case of the border dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, Cuba made a much greater effort to bring the participants to the negotiating table in the aforementioned Iraq–Iran war. But what exactly was behind this, what goals the island nation was pursuing and what efforts it made to achieve them? These are the questions what we would like to answer in this article.
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