Highlighting Continued Kuwaiti Missing Persons, Property, Security Council Underscores pressing Need to Identify Remaining
What was announced
The Senior Representative for implementing the relevant resolution on the Iraq-Kuwait dossier warned the Security Council today that “more than 35 years after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, this humanitarian file remains unresolved”.
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- United Nations Security Council (Level 8 of 10) · more news
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- Original: https://press.un.org/en/2026/sc16489.doc.htm
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