A meeting in Kuwait today on the missing in the Gulf War

A meeting in Kuwait today on the missing in the Gulf War

(Voice of Iraq) - 19/11/2009


Under the auspices of the Red Cross and the presence of representatives of Saudi Arabia and the United States, Britain and France

Baghdad: «Middle East»


Today Kuwait is hosting a high level meeting comprising representatives of Iraq and to uncover the fate of persons who went missing during the Second Gulf War (1990 1991), according to the International Committee of the Red Cross yesterday.


The Committee stressed that the meeting be held with the participation of coalition countries (the United States, Britain, France and Saudi Arabia) is a thirty-second session of meetings of the Tripartite Commission. According to the Agence France Press, "a statement from the ICRC delegate, beautiful pools, saying« are still hundreds of families living in a painful dilemma for more than 18 years and has a right to know what happened to their missing relatives. But only the authorities can answer these questions ».


The Tripartite Commission and its Technical Sub-Committee which was established in 1991 and 1994, respectively, in order to detect the fate of missing persons for reasons related to the Gulf War (1990 1991). This mechanism has helped so far, in uncovering the fate of more than 300 missing, including 215 Kuwaitis and 82 Iraqis and 12 Saudis and others from various nationalities. The statement «in Kuwait was finally extracted the bodies of several Iraqi soldiers will be brought back». He said the ICRC, through the provision of technical expertise and «its role as a neutral intermediary, will continue to provide support for the authorities to know the fate of more than a thousand people are still missing». These are the Kuwaitis, Iraqis and stateless (stateless) and other Arabs.


Kuwait stresses they do not know the fate of 605 persons (571 Kuwaitis and 34 foreigners, 14 are Saudis, five Egyptians, five Iranians and four Syrians, three Lebanese, one Bahraini, Omani and one Indian) were taken to Iraq during the occupation period. He admitted the former Iraqi regime as part of the prisoners are taken, but confirmed the loss of track of them after the Shiite uprising in southern Iraq that followed the Gulf War.

HERE'S ONE ON KUWAIT BORDER PROBLEM:

Jamal Old Database Images for "home": the Kuwaiti border - Iraqi specific since 90 years

(صوت العراق) - 19-11-2009 (Voice of Iraq) - 19/11/2009



(Thursday -5:05 m) denied the beauty of Old Database Images, former ambassador and member of the United Nations has announced the MP Hadi al-Hassani on for Kuwait on the Iraqi land and wells as a result of the demarcation process in 1995.


Old Database Images, said in a statement to "home" that the border between the two countries were defined according to the letters exchanged and agreements signed between the two countries for more than ninety years, and that the ICRC has not distributed any of the land between the two countries, but the border was drawn on the specific ground.


Old Database Images, said that the demarcation process was the presence and participation of the Iraqi delegation, headed by Dr. Riad Al-Essa, and was in accordance with international standards, after several field trips in both countries.


Old Database Images and pointed out that the Iraqi intelligence during Saddam's regime has been deposed to distort the facts and attempting to obstruct and disrupt the work of the Commission, through broadcast news and news that the Commission has awarded Kuwait Oradia at the expense of brotherly Iraq.


Old Database Images and continued that the decisions of the Commission was neutral and then issued several statements to the variation in the facts, did not reap the horns, which was launched by Saddam's regime but tickle feelings only.


Old Database Images and between Iraq and over the last thirty years to 1990, adopted the policy of crawling programmed into Kuwaiti territory until he reached the crawl for more than five kilometers into Kuwait, including Rumaila oil joint between Kuwait and Iraq, which prompted the Kuwait to send dozens of messages protest against these violations deposited with the United Nations.


The Old Database Images Kuwait is taken into account throughout all these years, the rights of neighbors and the conditions in Iraq in its war with Iran in the hope that fulfilled the restoration of rights to their owners after the stability and calm and dialogue at the highest levels, but unfortunately by the time Iraq invaded Kuwait.


Old Database Images and pointed out that the United Nations drew the international boundary between the two countries, according to border points, according to what is agreed upon between the two countries, and Kuwait was and still aims to demarcate the border to find factors of security and stability to the peoples and Governments of the two countries.