Moussa: Iraq will return back archives and documents for Kuwait

The secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa said on Friday Iraq will return what it has of official Kuwaiti documents and a national archive for Kuwait and asked it to do so through Moussa.

Moussa said in an exclusive statement to the Kuwaiti News Agency from Cairo that the Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri informed him officially that the Iraqi foreign ministry coordinated with the other Iraqi ministries and authorities to get "the special documents relating to the national archive of the state of Kuwait and other documents and that the Iraqi government will continue collecting all documents relating to the state of Kuwait until these documents will be restored back fully."

The Arab League chief said that the Iraqi government asked him to ensure returning back the documents and the archive to Kuwait, noting that that this measure is linked to what Moussa held of talks of discussions during his recent visit to Baghdad and in implementation of the resolutions of the recent Arab Beirut summit.

He explained he conveyed this important message to Kuwait and to the UN general secretariat.

Moussa added that the UN chief Kofi Annan greatly welcomed this step considering it as a positive development and he will inform the UN about that.