Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 9, 1991

We had breakfast with his mother and sister Tahira and Efat and greeted each other. I went to my office. In the reports, inflammation can be seen in the circles of global observers; Especially the results of today's meeting between the American and Iraqi foreign ministers in Geneva; I am also following with interest.

I had four meetings with the new ambassadors of Canada, Australia, Romania and Argentina [Mr. Paul Stewart Dingeldine, John Graham Weldon, Ivshan Vasiliou and Forberto Augusteke] who came to present their credentials. As usual, the meetings were short. I had a warm and sincere approach and negotiated with each of them accordingly. It seems that they respect our revolution much more than in the past; It took a total of 80 minutes.

The Supreme Administrative Council had a meeting. The discussion was about the inflation of government employees and government duties, and based on the plan, we decided to lighten the government's burden. It was approved to ask the government bodies to introduce the parts of their responsibilities that can be delegated to the people within three months, and the headquarters in the administrative and employment affairs organization will follow and direct the matter.

In the evening Dr. [Iraj] Fazel, [Minister of Health] came and explained and consulted about the things he wants to say during the impeachment process in the parliament; I gave notices. Dr. [Hassan] Habibi came at noon and told the result of the negotiation with Ezzat Ibrahim, [Iraq's Vice President]. He has clearly said that they will not leave Kuwait and they will not give points in Geneva and they are ready to defend themselves against the American attack and they want food and medical aid from us.

I attended the meeting of the government board. The statements of the Iraqi delegation as well as the way to implement physical balance in materials and machines were discussed. At night, I stayed in my office to do the backlog.

From CNN TV, I took the video of the talks between the American and Iraqi foreign ministers in Geneva; After the end of the negotiations, both of them looked anxious and excited, which was predictable. If this guess is correct, their expectation was that the Iraqis did not back down in the negotiations. I slept at twelve o'clock at night.