VOL. XLI

No. 29

20-July-1998

IRAQ

Correction - UNCC Iraq Claims

On 6 July MEES stated that the United Nations Compensation Committee (UNCC),which reviews claims against Iraq, can "only award claims for debts related tocontracts signed within the three months prior to the beginning of the Gulf crisis inAugust 1990." The UNCC has since informed MEES that the Commission's decisionregarding the claims within its jurisdiction is based not on the date that a contract wassigned but on the date of the...