Iraqi Foreign Ministry handed its Kuwaiti counterpart on Sunday around 200,000 books of the National Library and Kuwait University, which were looted during the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait in 1990.<\/p>\n
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He stressed that Kuwait is still urging the Iraqi side to hand over all the national archives and Kuwaiti properties that were looted systematically during the Iraqi invasion.<\/p>\n
The handover process was done under the supervision of the United Nations and the UNAMI mission in Iraq, and in implementation of Security Council resolution (2107) issued in 2013.<\/p>\n
On his part, Iraqi Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ambassador, Hazim Al\u00adYousifi said in a statement to KUNA that his country is keen to abide by relevant Security Council resolutions regarding Kuwait and to give it back what was looted during the Iraqi invasion.<\/p>\n
He affirmed Iraq’s keenness to consolidate brotherly relations between the two sides, recalling the recent visit of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al\u00adAhmad Al\u00adJaber Al\u00adSabah to Iraq and President Barham Saleh’s visit to Kuwait and relevant positive and constructive results.<\/p>\n\r\n