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Re: Kuwait-Iraq in Talks on Missing
From: POW-MIA InterNetwork
Date: January 18, 2003
"UN: Iraq-Kuwait Talks Moving Forward on Gulf War Missing Persons
VOA News
18 Jan 2003, 22:04 UTC
The United Nations says Kuwait and Iraq are making good progress in early talks on the fate of hundreds of people still missing from the Gulf War, including a U.S. Navy pilot shot down over Iraq in the early hours of the 1991 conflict.
Special U.N. envoy Yuli Vorontsov spoke with reporters late Saturday in Baghdad, after talks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri.
The Kuwaiti government has insisted Baghdad must account for about 600 of its citizens who went missing after Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in 1990, an event that triggered the war. Iraq has insisted publicly that it is not holding any detainees. The missing U.S. Navy pilot, Lieutenant-Commander Michael Speicher, was originally listed as killed in action. Two years ago, the Pentagon re-classified the pilot as missing in action, without releasing details leading to the status change.
Talks between Iraq and Kuwait on the fate of missing persons began earlier this month in Jordan. They are set to continue next Wednesday in Amman.
Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP. "
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