About the book: 2001 / This book is the first detailed publication in Russia about the dramatic events of the recent past - the seizure of Kuwait by Iraq and Operation Desert Storm. The author, being the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, talks, as a participant in the events, about how the Soviet position in connection with the crisis was formed and implemented, about the alternations of various international negotiations in Moscow, about why, despite all efforts, it was not possible to find peaceful way out of the crisis. The reader learns about many circumstances from this book for the first time.