VOL. XXXVII

NO. 48

29-AUGUST-1994

Kuwait

UN CompensationCommission To Examine Kuwait's $1Bn Claim For Oil Fires

The UNCompensation Commission, which is handling all claims against Iraq over the Gulfwar, said on 23 August that a Panel of Commissioners would be appointed as soonas possible to examine and report back on Kuwait's claim for more than $950mn ascompensation for the cost of putting out the oil well fires which were ignitedin Kuwait by withdrawing Iraqi troops in 1991. Experts to be...