Iraq Says Paid $50 Bln War Reparations To Kuwait
Umer Jamshaid Published March 02, 2021 | 05:34 PM
Iraq has so far paid $49.5 billion in war reparations to Kuwait, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday
BAGHDAD, Mar 2 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Mar, 2021 ) :Iraq has so far paid $49.5 billion in war reparations to Kuwait, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday.
"Iraq's dues now amount to only $2.5 billion," Mazhar Salih, an adviser to the prime minister, told Al-Sabaah newspaper.
In 1991, the UN obliged Baghdad to pay $52.
4 billion in compensation to individuals, companies, governmental organizations and others who incurred losses resulting from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
Salih said the Iraqi government is deducting 3% of oil revenues to pay the remaining compensation to Kuwait following the 1991 Iraqi invasion of its Gulf neighbor."The remaining war reparations are expected to be paid within a year or so," he said.
In May 2020, Iraqi lawmaker Hanin Qaddo told Anadolu Agency that Baghdad had asked Kuwait to postpone the payment of $3.7 billion in war reparations to the Gulf state.
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