VOL. XL

No. 32

11-August-1997

KUWAIT

Kuwait Receives Only $17.5Mn In Compensation So Far

The head of the Kuwaiti compensation committee's department of claims and disbursementhas said that only $17.5mn of its claims have so far been paid out in the A, B and Ccategories out of a total $1.9bn awarded by the Geneva-based United Nations CompensationsCommission. A report released in July by the UNCC states that Kuwait filed a total of234,992 claims against Iraq to the value of $132.2bn. The UNCC has...