Kuwait to recuperate parts of Iraqi planes stationed in Jordan

A Kuwaiti-Iraqi delegation will go to Jordan soon to recuperate parts of six Iraqi planes, which have been stationed there since 1990 in accordance with UN Security Council resolution to impose a freeze on Iraqi assets abroad of the Saddam regime.

A well-informed official of the United States was quoted by Kuwait's official KUNA news agency as reporting on Sunday that the delegation, led by a UN Coordinator Yuli Vorontsov, has began a preparation work and would travel to Jordan in the next seven to ten days.

The planes, some spare parts of which claimed by the Kuwaiti government, has been stationed in Jordan since 1990, said KUNA.

Iraqi planes were also grounded in Tunisia and some other countries in compliance with UN Security Council resolutions which ordered member states to impose a freeze on Iraqi assets abroad to punish the Saddam regime for invading neighboring Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990.

The report said that Vorontsov had led a similar delegation to Tunisia late last year and had returned some spare parts to Kuwait while the Iraqi planes were still stationed in the North African country.

Vorontsov was expected to submit a biannual report on June, 2007, which would specify detainees and property issues between Kuwait and Iraq since 1990, said KUNA.

Source: Xinhua