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11/12/2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - Washington / with / follow-up - Zia-Khalifa , Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, said that progress was possible in the settlement of the issue of missing Kuwaitis and the issue of missing Kuwaiti property, a proposal to extend the period of financial funding for the delegation of the Special Coordinator of the United Nations Gennady Tarasov, on these issues six months. According to a report that, which was read last night before the Security Council "in the light of the progress possible in the future, I propose to extend the UN Security Council mandate for the Coordinator until June 30 in 2012 to build on the momentum towards the implementation of Security Council resolution relevant. " Ban said, "It seems that the search for missing Kuwaitis and other nationalities in Iraq is still going on." "We welcome the cooperation shown by the Government of Iraq in this regard, and encourage them to take additional practical steps towards the fulfillment of their obligations .. and I wish to acknowledge the support provided by the Kuwaiti government. " The proposals of the Secretary General of the United Nations, despite the fact that Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in a letter to the United Nations last July that he «does not see the need to extend the mandate of the Special Coordinator after December, so that the Tripartite Commission and Technical Sub-Committee to work effectively on the humanitarian issue in the interest of Iraq and Kuwait. " and pay the finance functions Tarasov of the oil resources of Iraq by the United Nations Fund. Ban said that "the Kuwaiti officials , both in bilateral meetings or through the different messages, Nashidoh support an extension of the mandate of the Special Coordinator in order to achieve substantive results contribute to put an end to this humanitarian issue. " He said, for example, received a message from Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid, stating that "there has been no Tkdmmund in 2004 would explore the fate of 369 people missing, and stressed the support of Kuwait to extend the mandate of the Tarasov." and called on the Secretary General of the United Nations Iraq to "continue to work with Kuwait in an atmosphere of confidence for progress important in resolving this humanitarian issue. " He believed that "this cooperation as well as other steps the task taken by Iraq on the path to fulfill its obligations under Security Council resolutions relevant, will enhance the chances of exit from Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations." priority is the work of Tarasov in " format to send missions to explore common to sites in Iraq, where is likely to be found where the bodies of Kuwaitis and others. " He explained that "The three missions were carried out until the present time to the city of Nasiriyah south-west of Iraq in December of 2010, and to the nearby emirate of quintile in the marshlands in southern Iraq in June, and in September of the same year. " stressed that: "Although he is not exploring any human remains, these missions represent a promising framework for further work on the ground, and can become such missions mechanism of action effective to investigate fully the fate of the missing. " He pointed out that "these efforts established confidence in the performance of hard work, and give a perspective is possible to reach concrete results, stressing that" significant progress will require strong commitment and effort a professional, constructive and shoulder to shoulder and lasting. " said the Secretary General of the United Nations that "the human rights minister, Mohammed al-Sudan told Tarasov when he was in Baghdad, the ministry has prepared a work plan for 2012 to ensure priority for further investigation in the Emirate of quintile southern Iraq and in the city of Hilla in central Iraq." He added that "the Iraqi minister told Tarasov also that Iraq received equipment purchased by Kuwait, at a cost of about one million dollars to dig mass graves to find out about the identities of those buried in it. " He expressed his belief that "Iraq needs to work with the United Nations, in this humanitarian issue according to the specified time frame." In the context of the WWW, general secretary of the United Nations that "the remains of 32 soldiers, an Iraqi was discovered by the Technical Subcommittee at the beginning of this year, and was handed over to Iraqi authorities last July," adding that "moth similar been implemented north of Kuwait at the end of last November." On the issue of Kuwaiti archives, Ban expressed "concern about the lack of substantial progress in the search for, and the lack of documented information so far about his whereabouts." Ban said that "the message sent by Iraq to him last November that he had discovered some 136 bar microfilm dating back to the newspaper, Kuwait today, and he had sent a letter to the Kuwaiti authorities in this regard. " is set to "decide the Security Council in a report that in the fifteenth of December, and will be invited to provide Tarasov briefing to members on developments issues."
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