Iraq failed to return most seized Kuwaiti property – Annan
Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s government failed to return most of the Kuwaiti property seized during its 1990–91 occupation of its neighbour despite some “limited cooperation” prior to the recent hostilities, according to the latest United Nations report on the issue.
Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s government failed to return most of the Kuwaiti property seized during its 1990–91 occupation of its neighbour despite some “limited cooperation” prior to the recent hostilities, according to the latest United Nations report on the issue.
“While some property and some documents were handed over, it must be stressed that the Kuwaiti archives, along with Kuwaiti military equipment seized by Iraq, remain largely unreturned,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in the latest of the half-yearly reports requested in 1999 by the Security Council.
He notes that Council resolution 1483, adopted last month and recognizing the United States and its coalition partners as the occupying governing authority, asked the UN’s High-level Coordinator on the issue, Yuli M. Vorontsov, to proceed with his duties in fulfilment of his mandate.
“It is hoped that there will be continued commitment to the search and return of Kuwaiti property and archives and that real progress may soon be achieved,” Mr. Annan adds.