UN Officer Required to Be Expelled Out of Iraq for Law ViolationIraq on Sunday accused a United Nations officer from the UN Iraqi-Kuwaiti Observation Mission (UNIKOM) of violating the Iraqi law and demanded the international organization to expel him out of Iraq.In a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Said Al-Sahaf said that Joseph Jalola, a UN officer from Kenya, tried on December 10 last year to cross the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border with smuggled materials hidden in a UNIKOM car, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported on Sunday. The officer was brought into an Iraqi liaison office and he confessed that he tried to smuggle illegal materials into Iraq, the INA said, but did not elaborate. Military officers of the UNIKOM have been deployed in a demilitarized zone at the border between Iraq and Kuwait since the 1991 Gulf War. The US-led multinational alliance drove Iraqi occupation forces out of Kuwait in the Gulf War, triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraq has been under stringent UN sanctions since 1990. |
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