Examples of using Missing kuwaitis in English and their translations into French
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Ii. the situation of missing kuwaitis.
There are 600 missing Kuwaitis, and more than 1,000 missing Iraqis.
Ii. the situation of missing kuwaitis.
On 26 June 1994, Iraq presented ICRC with the findings of a preliminary investigation of 71 files on missing Kuwaitis.
It was ascertained that a number of missing Kuwaitis had died in numerous incidents;
Security Council urges Iraq to cooperate on issue of missing Kuwaitis.
Thirdly, the matter of missing Kuwaitis is a humanitarian issue that Kuwait has been exploiting for its own cheap political purposes.
ICRC is currently requesting Iraq to reply to 609 files on missing Kuwaitis and foreigners.
The cases on the list of missing Kuwaitis concern persons from various social strata and of different ages; only a few are non-Kuwaitis.
Mr. Al-Musawi expressed his sympathies to the families of the missing Kuwaitis, who were likewise bereaved.
Accordingly, we first see no justification for the Special Rapporteur to involve himself in this matter, and secondly,we do not believe that his mandate extends to include the subject of missing Kuwaitis.
Iraq is also making every effort to find the remains of missing Kuwaitis and that country's national archive.
The case of missing Kuwaitis, which was dealt with in Security Council resolution 686(1991), had been referred to the International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC), since the problem was a consequence of an armed conflict.
Representatives of our mission at Geneva attended the trilateral meeting on missing Kuwaitis, held at Geneva on 1 July 1994.
Fourthly, the Special Rapporteur had insisted on raising the issue of missing Kuwaitis, although the Security Council had mandated the International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC) to deal with that humanitarian issue.
The Minister and the Coordinator agreed that it would be within the mandate of the Coordinator to meet with officials of the former Iraqi regime to collect information on missing Kuwaitis.
The Minister for Human Rights reaffirmed the commitment to the search for missing Kuwaitis, citing, inter alia, excavations under way in Ramadi.
He added that Kuwait did not expect the mandate to continue until allthe missing were found, but additional progress was expected in the search for missing Kuwaitis.
In total, the monitors interviewed more than 100 victims, witnesses andfamily members of the missing Kuwaitis, including persons who had remained in Kuwait during the occupation.
Regarding his first point, the situation of missing Kuwaitis, the Special Rapporteur had stated in paragraph 13 of his report(A/49/651) that he had been mandated by the Commission on Human Rights to examine that situation.
According to available information, about 50 officials of the former Iraqi regime were visited in prison but denied any knowledge of possible grave sites where the remains of missing Kuwaitis might be discovered.
The mission would investigate sites where missing Kuwaitis may have been buried and, if successfully conducted, would facilitate further and broader joint exploration activities at gravesites within Iraq.
The Coordinator also suggested that the Interim Government of Iraq appeal to Iraqis who mighthave been witnesses or have information about missing Kuwaitis or their burial sites to come forward and provide that information.
In paragraph 19 of his report,van der Stoel refers to the issue of the missing Kuwaitis, giving conflicting and inaccurate information with a view to influencing the working procedures of the relevant international agencies.
Based upon information received by the Special Rapporteur, the specific military units responsible in the areas where the arrests and disappearances occurred have now resortedto pro forma responses, admitting only to having arrested and detained some of the still missing Kuwaitis.
It was stressed that the national interest of Kuwait lay solely in the necessity of finding and returning missing Kuwaitis, or their remains, as well as archives, and having for that purpose a United Nations-supervised mechanism with reporting responsibilities to the Security Council.
On 14 September 2004, the Council of the League of Arab States, meeting in Cairo at the level of Foreign Ministers, in a resolution regarding developments in Iraq condemned serious violations of human rights during theoccupation of Kuwait and the concealment of facts related to the prisoners and missing Kuwaitis by the former Iraqi regime.
Van der Stoel attempts to invoke the issue of missing Kuwaitis for obvious political purposes unrelated to human rights with a view to the continued exercise of pressure on the Government of Iraq and prolongation of the economic embargo and hence the suffering of the Iraqi people.
With regard to paragraph 20, concerning the extension of the High-level Coordinator's mandate, we do not support the extension of Mr. Tarasov's mandate because of the existence of the aforementioned committees responsible for the issue of property and the archives, as well as the Tripartite Commission and the Technical Subcommittee,both of which are responsible for the issue of missing Kuwaitis.
However, since the Special Rapporteur lacked, until the summer of 1994, sufficient resources to study the unique and specific matter of missing Kuwaitis, only very brief reporting has been offered by the Special Rapporteur in his previous two reports to the Commission see E/CN.4/1993/45, para. 49, and E/CN.4/1994/58, para. 32.