DATE=6/19/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-N / IRAQ / KUWAITI PROPERTY (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-263547
BYLINE=BRECK ARDERY
DATELINE=UNITED NATIONS
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: The United Nations Security Council is urging
Iraq to return the remaining property it seized after
its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. V-O-A Correspondent
Breck Ardery reports from the United Nations.
TEXT: In closed session (Monday), the Council received
a briefing from Yuli Vorontsov, the Russian diplomat
who is the U-N coordinator for the return of Kuwaiti
assets. Of particular concern to Kuwait are its
governmental archives, which include tens of thousands
of documents. Kuwait also claims that Iraq still
holds seized military equipment and museum items.
Iraq has already returned a large quantity of Kuwaiti
property, but says it has been difficult to locate the
remaining items that Kuwait claims are still in Iraq.
After the Security Council meeting, President Jean
Levitte of France told reporters that Iraq should do
better.
/// LEVITTE ACT ///
We take note that Iraq has returned a
substantial quantity of property over a nine-
year period of time,but that there remains many
items of fundamental importance for Kuwait,
which Iraq is under obligation to return to
Kuwait.
/// END ACT ///
In a report on the matter, U-N Secretary-General Kofi
Annan says it may never be possible for Iraq to return
100 percent of all property taken from Kuwait.
However, he urges Iraq to act in a spirit of good
will, and give special attention to locating and
returning the Kuwaiti government's national archives.
(Signed)
NEB/UN/BA/LSF/WTW
19-Jun-2000 22:28 PM LOC (20-Jun-2000 0228 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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