SG/SM/8570
IK/326
24 December 2002

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES IRAQ’S HAND-OVER
OF KUWAITI PROPERTY

NEW YORK, 23 December (UN Headquarters) -- The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General notes that on 22 December, in Umm Qasr, Iraq handed over to Kuwaiti officials items of Kuwaiti property not related to its national archives (the list of these items was annexed to the recent report of the Secretary-General, S/2002/1349). The United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) facilitated this hand-over.

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