Ban Ki-moon regretted the failure to find the remains of Kuwaitis missing in Iraq

Saturday, 15 March / March 2014 13:49



Twilight News / UN Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon on Saturday, Lamented the failure to find more remains of Kuwaitis missing persons records or Kuwait in Iraq, as alluded to what he called an atmosphere of cooperation and enable the close ties between the two countries.

alt It is said that many of the Kuwaitis were arrested following the invasion forces of the former regime of Kuwait in 1990, and has held talks and several attempts between the two countries to learn their fate; in order to be released, but many of them are still unaccounted for, and true also on the records of the institutions of Kuwait.

Ban said in a report submitted to the Security Council last night, seen by "Twilight News" The 'technical and practical difficulties to find more remains of Kuwaiti citizens in Iraq increases with the passage of time due to the difficulty in obtaining accurate information that can facilitate the process of researching and securing witnesses trusted. "

He said the 'Iraqi authorities said the Acting Special Representative in Iraq Gyorgy Posten that there are challenges in addressing the issues of missing Kuwaitis and Kuwaiti property, including national registries. "

He added, "The Iraqi authorities pointed out the difficulty of finding reliable witnesses due to their deaths or living in other countries or their desire to distance themselves from their past, which hinders access to reliable information and quality."

He noted that "in spite of these challenges, but the Iraqi authorities have examined a number of proposals made ​​by the UN mission to help Iraq (UNAMI) so that their efforts could yield good results."

He said Ki-moon said that "Iraqi authorities have excavations in different locations to search for the remains of Kuwaiti citizens and others missing since the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, but all these efforts yielded no results and security concerns hinder research plans in the town (Solomon Peck) north of Baghdad," urging "Iraqi authorities to redouble their efforts and explore all possible incentives to persuade witnesses and informants to help them in the search process."

And expressed his disappointment at "the lack of any meaningful progress in finding the Kuwaiti national archives urging the Government of Iraq to provide innovative methods in the search", appealing Committees of both the Iraqi and Kuwaiti private property lost to work closely and hold meetings on a regular basis.

He pointed out that "Posten representatives urged Iraqis and Kuwaitis earlier to hold a joint meeting of their committees that have not met since her meeting with the first and only one in 15 of the past month Maes in the State of Kuwait."

Referred to The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq recently announced that it collected 100 thousand books and scientific journals and 500 thesis while found and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to 247 books and copper plate and plate other technical publications, while I found the Ministry of Culture a number of books and publications, all of which date back to the points of Kuwaiti confiscated during Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, inter alia, repealed by the former regime of the property of another.

He went on and the Secretary General of the UN, The 'UNAMI suggested that these materials are delivered to the State of Kuwait when it meets the special committees of property lost in Iraq as proposed by Baghdad. "

The Scheduled to discuss the United Nations, Report submitted by the "Ban Ki-moon" in the twenty-seventh of March Ongoing.


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