FM, HRM urge to provide information about missing Kuwaitis in Iraq

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Human Rights called the citizens to provide information on missing Kuwaiti citizens in Iraq due to the former regime’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

The Foreign Ministry’s statement received by Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) on Sunday cited that “The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Human Rights call on honest citizens to offer their information on missing persons from the Kuwaiti war and places of their disappearance.”

“The Iraqi government has made serious efforts to find those missing citizens or their remains and we have been successful in finding 236 missing persons so far and the remaining is 373.”

The statement noted that “Efforts to accomplish this task is part of our international obligations, and providing information about these missing people would serve our dear country to get rid of the effects of the crimes committed by the former regime and maintain the reputation of Iraq and its natural place in the international community.”

The UN Security Council has urged the Iraqi government to abide by its responsibility in searching for missing Kuwaitis in addition to the Kuwaiti national archives on the Iraqi territories for more than two decades.