In an article in the al-Qabas newspaper in Kuwait, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah was quoted as saying, ?Saddam [Hussein] and [Ariel] Sharon have similar techniques in dealing with international resolutions... they violate them.? Al-Sabah was responding to an Iraqi proposal to establish a follow-up committee in the Arab League in order to address the issue of prisoners of war and missing Kuwaitis from the time of the 1990-91 Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. However, the establishment of a committee is a transparent Iraqi attempt to by-pass international resolutions on the matter, according to al-Sabah.
Iraq has claimed that prisoners taken during the occupation of Kuwait were ?lost? during the subsequent conflict in southern Iraq. Kuwait claims that more than 600 people disappeared during the Iraqi occupation and that they are still being held by Iraq. Iraq claims that an even larger number of missing and ?disappeared? Iraqi citizens are being held in Kuwait.
While emphasizing that Iraq is to be held responsible for its violations of international resolutions, the Kuwaiti minister made sure to add that his country condemned Israel's ?barbaric violence,? which was ?unacceptable for the Palestinians, and the Arab and Islamic worlds.?
Iraq has claimed that prisoners taken during the occupation of Kuwait were ?lost? during the subsequent conflict in southern Iraq. Kuwait claims that more than 600 people disappeared during the Iraqi occupation and that they are still being held by Iraq. Iraq claims that an even larger number of missing and ?disappeared? Iraqi citizens are being held in Kuwait.
While emphasizing that Iraq is to be held responsible for its violations of international resolutions, the Kuwaiti minister made sure to add that his country condemned Israel's ?barbaric violence,? which was ?unacceptable for the Palestinians, and the Arab and Islamic worlds.?