VOL. XLI

No. 30

27-July-1998

KUWAIT

Kuwait Challenges Iraqi Claims To Tankers

Kuwait has now told the UN it is selling five Iraqi tankers left behind after the Gulfwar for scrap metal because of their poor condition and the environmental hazards theypose to Kuwaiti territorial waters. In a letter dated 15 July, Kuwaiti Minister forForeign Affairs Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah told UN Secretary General Kofi Annan thathis country had spent $18.4mn on maintaining the tankers by the end of June...