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UN:
SECURITY COUNCIL REITERATES CONCERN OVER FATE OF KUWAITIS MISSING SINCE
1990: 11/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 11 December 2007 --
Voicing regret that there has been little
recent progress on recovering and identifying the remains of Kuwaitis and other
nationals missing since Iraq’s 1990 invasion, Security Council members today
called for renewed efforts to determine their fate and that of the missing
Kuwaiti national archive.
In a
statement to the press read out by Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, which
holds the rotating presidency this month, the 15-member body offered its
condolences to the families of those missing persons whose remains have been
identified, and its sympathies to those whose whereabouts are still unknown.
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon, in his most recent report on the issue, noted that since May the
number of Kuwaitis and other nationals whose remains were identified remains
unchanged, at 233, with no exhumations conducted this year.
Mr. Ban
wrote that “Kuwait is unable to send field missions to Iraq to perform search,
assessment and exhumation activities as long as the security situation in Iraq
remains dangerous.” In addition, efforts to convince Iraqi witnesses to come
to Kuwait and provide relevant information have so far been unsuccessful.
In the
meantime, Kuwait has been gathering information about burial sites in Iraq in
preparation for dispatching technical teams to the war-torn country as soon as
the situation there stabilizes. Security permitting, it hopes to send a
technical team to Iraq in early 2008 to carry out identification procedures at
one such site.
“Council
members strongly condemned the execution of Kuwaiti and third country nationals
by the former Iraqi regime, in violation of human rights and international
humanitarian law,” the statement added. “Security Council members repeated
their view that those responsible for these horrendous crimes should be brought
to justice.”
Earlier,
the Council was briefed on the issue by Assistant Secretary-General for
Political Affairs Angela Kane, on behalf of Yuli Vorontsov, the
Secretary-General’s High Level Coordinator on the issue.
Council
members commended the cooperation of Iraq, Kuwait and other members of the
Tripartite Commission, and said they were confident that all the parties could
work towards a solution to the remaining humanitarian aspects of the issue.
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