VOL. XLIII

No. 44

30-OCTOBER-2000

IRAQ/KUWAIT

Kuwait And Iraq Continue To Differ Over Border Oilfields

The Iraqi Government, in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 11 October, has repeated the accusation first made in mid-September that Kuwait is pumping Iraqi oil from fields straddling the border between the two countries. The Kuwaiti Government rejected the initial accusations in a letter to Mr Annan on 18 September, saying that its wells in the northern region were...