Iraq to start returning Kuwaiti National Archives, UN reports

Iraq is set to begin on Saturday returning to Kuwait the country’s national archives, which were taken by Baghdad following its occupation of Kuwait in 1990, a United Nations spokesman announced today.

The modalities for the transfer were arranged in August by the UN working with Iraq and Kuwait.

The return will take place at Camp Abdaly, the headquarters of the northern sector of the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM), which is located in the Kuwaiti sector of the demilitarized zone between the two countries, the spokesman said.

Baghdad originally agreed to return the missing archives during talks held in Vienna in July between Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri.