Proposal failed to settle humanitarian issues between Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
Iraq-Regional, Politics, 7/20/1999

Arab diplomatic sources in Cairo stated that the mechanism assigned to the council of the Arab League, which the AL Secretary General was assigned to set up to settle humanitarian matters between Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia did not proceed one step forward, due to the insistence of each side on their own individual position.

These sources, which abstained from being identified, said that the Secretary general of the Arab League (AL) Esmat Abdul Meguid received written answers from these states on the proposals mentioned in his messages concerning the establishment of the proposed mechanism, adding that Iraq has informed the AL its presistence that the proposed mechanism is to be merely an Arab one, including all sides concerned with the question of the prisoners and missing between the three states. However each of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are by their turn persistent that the proposed mechanism to be within the framework of the UN resolutions and mechanisms, while Kuwait asked in its message on the need of Iraq's return back to the meetings of the tripartite technical committee which includes Kuwait, Iraq and the International Red Cross.

Meantime, Saudi Arabia has asserted its stand which is based on the need that the mechanism will be only within the context of the UN resolutions, a stand which is almost identical with the stand taken by Kuwait. The sources indicated that the mechanism is dead as an idea before it was born, in line with the stand adopted by the three sides towards this mechanism.

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