Kuwait’s victims’ remains unconfirmed yet, its foreign Ministry says:

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Kuwaiti Technical Team, comprising several experts, searching for the remains of the Kuwaiti victims of Iraq‘s 1990 invasions, has failed to discover such remnants till now, the Director of Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry’s Follow-up and Coordination Directorate, said on Wednesday. “A Kuwaiti technical team, comprising a number of experts, is searching southern Iraq‘s Nassirya city to extract some remnants to define their identities, but it had not confirmed the existance of remnants of Kuwait victims till now,” Khalid al-Mughamis said. He stressed that the operation of searching is taking place in coordination with the Alliance Forces and the Iraqi side, in the light of the Tripartite Committee Meeting and the Technical Committee, stemmed from it, held in Kuwait about two weeks ago. Iraqi security sources had informed IraqiNews.com news agency that a Kuwaiti team “is carrying out searching operations in Iraq, looking for the remanants of Kuwait‘s victims, who were lost in 1990, in southern Iraq‘s Nassiriya city.” A Special Human Rights Ministry’s Specialized Team had begun on 23/11/2009 to open four sites, searching for lost Kuwaitis, who passed away during the 2nd Gulf War in 1991, and it is believed that they had been buried in Dhi-Qar Province, but no evidence had been found about the presence of any lost person. The dossier of the Iraqi-Kuwaiti Relations comprises several issues, most outstanding of which are compensations Iraq pays to Kuwait, due to its occupation in 1990 and Kuwait‘s position towards Iraq‘s exclusion from UN Charter’s 7th Article, imposing sanctions against Iraq, along with the demacraction of borders of the two countries and the issue of the remnants of Kuwait victims, lost during the Iraqi invasion. SKH 47