IK/
183
12 October 1995
UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION CONCLUDES
18TH SESSION IN GENEVA
GENEVA, 11 October (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of
the United Nations Compensation Commission held its eighteenth Session from
9 to 11 October 1995 under the presidency of the Permanent Representative
of Italy to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Giuseppe Baldocci, to
consider additional compensation claims resulting from departures from Iraq
and Kuwait during the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War.
After receiving the report of Executive Secretary Carlos Alzamora
and the report of the working group, through its Chairman, Corrado Milesi
Ferretti, the Council approved the fourth report of the Panel of
Commissioners for category "A" claims, for individual departures,
awarding $771,531,000 to 217,513 individual claimants from 67 countries and
three international organizations filing Palestinian claims. This latest
approval brings the total of resolved category "A" claims to over 560,000
claims from 77 countries and international organizations, with a value of
over $2 billion.
The Council also received the report and recommendations of the panel on
the jurisdiction phase of the consolidated Egyptian workers claim. While
awaiting the panel's final report, the Council requested the Executive
Secretary to provide the text of the report to the Governments of Egypt
and Iraq.
The Council decided to pay the outstanding compensation awards issued so
far in category "B" claims (death and serious personal injuries) totaling
$8.2 million to claimants from 41 countries and three international
organizations filing Palestinian claims. This is in addition to the
$2.7 million already paid on the first instalment to claimants from
16 countries.
The Commission accepted for processing, on a selective and case-by-case
basis, 3,110 claims in categories A, B, C, D and E filed by 18 countries
and four international organizations after the expiration date, for reasons
beyond the responsibility of the claimants or due to the breakdown in civil
order of the country concerned. Another 1,349 claims were submitted to
further examination, while 130 were not accepted.
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The Council discussed several procedural measures to facilitate the
submission of additional information and views by the parties and to speed
up the processing of claims. Other measures were adopted by the Council to
reduce costs.
The Council also considered the question of additional sources of
funding, in conjunction with the letter addressed by the President of the
Governing Council to the Chairman of the Sanctions Committee. That letter
requested information on the confiscated Iraqi oil illegally carried by
ships seized in the Persian Gulf that, according to the relevant Security
Council provisions, should be sold, with its proceeds to go to the escrow
account and 30 per cent transferred to the Compensation Fund.
Representatives from the Governments of Kuwait, Iraq, Sudan and India
addressed the Council.
The next meeting of the Governing Council will take place from
11 to 13 December 1995.
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