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Iraq Says Ready to Cooperate With Kuwait on Gulf War MIAs
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri Ahmed on Monday expressed Baghdad's readiness to cooperate with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on the issues of Kuwaiti missings in action (MIAs) during the 1990 Gulf crisis and the ensuing 1991 Gulf War.
"Iraq is ready to exert efforts and engage in direct cooperation with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to search for the MIAs and close up this dossier," Ahmed was quoted as saying by the official Iraqi News Agency.
The remarks came after Ahmed sent a letter to Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Saturday, in which he welcomed Moussa's initiative to form a committee to follow up the issue of Iraqi and Kuwaiti MIAs in the Gulf War.
"Iraq takes into consideration any initiative dealing with the Iraqi and Kuwaiti MIAs as this is a humanitarian issue," Ahmed said in the letter.
Kuwait has repeatedly demanded that Iraq account for the fate of some 600 Kuwaitis and nationals of other countries, who have been missing since the war.
Iraq admits that it took prisoners of war as its troops withdrew from the emirate, but insists that it loses the track of them during an uprising in southern Iraq after the Gulf War.
Meanwhile, Iraq accuses Kuwait of concealing the truth over the fate of 1,150 missing Iraqis.
Both Kuwait and Iraq have set up committees to investigate the fate of their MIAs in the Gulf War.
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