Kuwait to get its acrchives back, rejects striking Iraq
Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 7/25/2002

Kuwait on Wednesday stressed its opposition to a likely attack against Iraq and said it will take a position similar to that taken by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to this effect.

The Kuwaiti daily al-Watan quoted Kuwait's minister of information Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as saying that "Kuwait still clings to its position in rejecting a strike on Iraq." He added "this is the very official stand of the state of Kuwait and no change is made in it."

The Kuwaiti minister said "Kuwait will not take any stances nor decisions in isolation of its sister member states in the GCC, whose members voiced their rejection to striking Iraq."

Meantime, Kuwait's Minister of State For Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, said in statements issued on Wednesday that Kuwait will restore back within two months its "national documents and official scripts Iraq had confiscated during its invasion of Kuwait in 1990." The Kuwaiti minister added in statements to the Kuwaiti paper al-Anbaa that these scripts and documents will be returned back to Kuwait through the UN.

He added "it is presumed that these documents will reach us within two months and we do hope that these documents are the required ones and not issues of the 'Kuwaiti today' magazine."

The Kuwaiti minister said, replying a question on whether the documents will be delivered through the Arab League, that "this resolution was issued by the UN Security Council and we will only accept the documents to reach us through the UN." On June 6, a UN official announced that Iraq will return back to Kuwait within 6 weeks its national scripts and official documents that it had confiscated in 1990.

The UN official, in charge of the prisoners of war affairs and Kuwaiti properties related issues as a result of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Russian Yuli Forontsov, announced that the operation of returning back the documents will start within one and a half months.

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