Iraq, Kuwait Agree on Arrangements for Archives Returning

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Iraq, Kuwait Agree on Arrangements for Archives Returning

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Iraq and Kuwait have agreed on the detailed arrangements for Iraq's returning of Kuwaiti national archives seized by Iraq during its occupation of the emirate twelve years ago, an UN envoy said on Monday.

Iraq will begin to transfer the documents within the next few weeks after the United Nations working group gets ready for the operation, Richard Foran, an envoy of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for missing Kuwaiti documentation, was quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency as saying.

Foran also expressed his appreciation of Iraq's efforts to facilitate the operation, the INA added.

The UN envoy has held talks with both Iraqi and Kuwaiti officials in Baghdad and Kuwait City in the past two weeks to mediate the transferring operation.

Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait in August 1990 and was evicted out of the small emirate by the US-led multinational coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War.

Kuwait maintains that Iraq, during its seven-month occupation, took valuable pieces from Kuwait's Islamic and National Museums and archives from Kuwait's Foreign Ministry, the Prime Minister's Office and other government departments.

Under the relevant UN Security Council resolution passed in 1991, Iraq is obliged to return all looted Kuwaiti properties and accounts for missing Kuwaitis.

During the talks between Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri and Annan in July in Vienna, Iraq agreed with the United Nations on the mechanism for the returning of Kuwaiti property.

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