VOL. XXXIV

NO. 25

25-MARCH-1991

Iraq

Kuwait Kuwait Reconstruction: Damage Assessment Less than PreviouslyEstimated

At a conference held in London on 17 March, which was sponsored by theBritish Government and attended by some 1,200 industry leaders andrepresentatives, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Kuwait, Mr. Ghazi al-Rayyis,disclosed that the restoration of Kuwait is now estimated to cost between$30-50bn and take between five and ten years to complete. The Ambassador'sprojection is far lower than the...