UN Security Council confirms killing of Kuwaiti missing in Iraq

The U.N. security council on Thursday confirmed the killing of 605 persons that Kuwait says had been missing since the Iraqi invasion of its land in 1990.

The chairman of the council, the Bulgarian ambassador, Steven Tavrov, said that the council "share with the UN secretary general Kofi Annan its views, and expresses condolences to the families if the Kuwaiti citizens and others." In a report on Tuesday, Annan ruled out finding the Kuwaiti alive ever since they have been missing since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. He expressed warmest condolences to the families of the missing Kuwaitis and to the state of Kuwait.

The UN Security Council expressed its "deep regret," because the Kuwaiti properties, especially the national archive which was confiscated by the Iraqi forces have not yet been returned to Kuwait.

The UN Security Council, on the other hand, stressed it "encourages the coalition ( the Anglo-American occupation) to continue searching for all Kuwaiti properties and documents, and to return back them to their owners.

The council decided that the former Russian ambassador in Washington Yuli Forintsov, who was assigned in February 2002 to follow up the file of the missing Kuwaiti and properties, to resume his mission.