WORLD FOOD SUMMIT: Five Years Later


	Written Statement submitted by the State of Kuwait in exercise of its Right of Reply under Rule 20 of the Rules of Procedure of the World Food Summit: five years later

The Kuwaiti delegation, cognizant of the solemnity of the Summit's proceedings, chose not to exercise its right of reply to the statement by the head of the Iraqi delegation in the Plenary Session on the morning of Wednesday, 12/6/2002, in which he persistently used the term «food blocade», accusing somehow the world and the Organization of not implementing the Security Council Resolution 706/1991; which is contrary to the truth that we uphold. The State of Kuwait, was unwilling to provoke any political debate for which the Organization is not the adequate venue. Upon consultation with the Organization's legal advisor, the Kuwaiti delegation decided to submit the clarifications attached hereto in order to request the competent bodies, (such as the Committee on World Food Security and other organs,) to take Kuwait's position into account every time Iraq alleges that it is being deprived of its right to basic food.

Kuwait reserves the right to reply whenever the need demands and it will refer to its Government for instructions in all cases in the future.

The attached clarifications of the delegation of the State of Kuwait to the World Food Summit, including some tables, follow.

Clarifications from the Kuwaiti delegation concerning the damages allegedly Suffered by the Iraqi population as a result of the embargo

The United Nations has dealt with the issue of the Iraqi nation through the Security Council Resolutions and the ensuing implementation of UN resolutions on the boycott and the embargo.

The Security Council Resolution 706/1991 authorized the use of part of the oil export revenues to finance the purchasing of food commodities, drugs, and other necessary supplies to respond to the citizens' basic needs.

The Resolution states clearly that both the boycott and the embargo do not extend to basic food imports necessary to meet the Iraqi population's needs. Contraband Iraqi traders were active in running animals and other food commodities across Iraqi borders with the full knowledge of the Iraqi authorities. These practices were recorded by the international officers responsible for the monitoring of maritime traffic to and from Iraq, according to international resolutions as illustrated in the following table.

These data, information, and figures show clearly and contradict the Iraqi allegations regarding the Iraqi population's sufferings and the embargo incurred by both children and old persons.

Note:

Article 12 of the Resolution 661/1991 stipulates: decides, in case any country or any of its citizens tries to evade the provisions of Resolution 661/1991 or through its territorial waters, to examine eventual measures against these countries to avoid such trafficking.

Article 8 of the Resolution 670/1991 on merchandise trafficking stipulates: requests all countries to sequestrate any Iraqi matriculated ship that enters its ports, which is being or was used in violation to Resolution 661/1991 or to prohibit such ships from entering its ports.

Ships that have violated the economic embargo on Iraq

N	Ship's name	Matriculation	Nationality	Cargo	Date of naturalization
1	Rajak	350	Indian	350 tons of dried dates	18/1/1996
2	Sarah	1226	Indian	400 tons of dried dates	18/1/1996
3	Taef	3671	Emirati	4444 rice bags	23/11/1996
4	Omran	3540	Emirati	1290 German sugar bags	11/12/1996
5	Jilani	1218	Indian	74,300 tons of maize 49,880 tons of dried date packs 74,834 tons of dried dates	30/6/1998
6	Ajmal	3512	Emirati	200 tons of dried dates	30/7/1998
7	Nasrat	503	Indian	200 tons of dried dates	4/11/1998
8	Jilani	312	Indian	36 tons of coconuts	29/11/1998
9	Fath Al-Rahman	4028	Emirati	773 tons of dried dates	11/2/1999
10	Nurani	595	Emirati flag	250 tons of cotton 75 boxes of powder for babies 25 boxes of feeding bottles for babies	11/8/1999
11	Anwar	379	Indian flag	60,53 tons of milking 154,695 tons of clover 99,760 tons of Indian pea	4/10/1999
12	Al-Musaji	3862	Emirati flag	22 tons of licorice 350,160 tons of wool 446 packs of clover seeds non-listed on the manifest	4/10/1999
13	Nawaf	3256	Emirati flag	150 tons of dried dates	4/10/1999
14	Fath Al-Bari	3144	Emirati	300 tons of Zahidi dried dates	24/10/1999
15	Emirates IV	3710	Emirati	350 tons of Zahidi dried dates	24/10/1999
16	Al-Musaed	3399	Emirati	62,400 tons of Zahidi dried dates 20 tons of dates or the equivalent of 10000 date boxes	24/10/1999
17	Fath Al-Karim	-	Hindu	646 tons of dried dates 42000 animal leather items 4 tons of diesel	21/11/1999
18	Sultani	2510	Indian	150 tons of dried date packs	13/1/2000
19	Al-Mubarak	22451	Honduras	150 tons of dried date packs 2500 dried date boxes	13/1/2000
20	Ghawth Rida	4060	Emirati	300 tons of date packs	25/1/2000
21	Hamed (ex-Umm Al-Khayr)	4528	Emirati	358 tons of dried dates	19/2/2000
22	Omar Djibouti	405	-	50 tons of Indian pea 320 tons of dried dates	15/3/2000
23	Assad Al-Bahr	1968	Emirates	150 tons of Zahidi dried dates 7 tons of Samrawf	31/3/2000
24	Fath Al-Rahman II (ex-Al-Ayyubi)	4059	-	15888 tamarind packs 1125 Indian pea packs	7/5/2000
25	Ismaili	2488	Emirati flag	48000 leather items 20 tons of wool 60,255 tons of Indian pea	12/6/2000
26	Hunine	3174	Emirates	494 sheep	25/6/2000
27	Nour Al-Husseini	-	Indian flag	231,460 tons of urea fertilizer 31,380 tons of licorice root 37,200 tons of leather items	1/7/2000
28	Kannas X	4038	Emirati flag	70 tons of dried dates 25 tons of licorice 110 tons of urea (fertilizer)	19/7/2000
29	Niradar	-	Indian flag	19975 dried date packs 10717 dried date boxes	8/11/2000
30	Al-Hamadi	-	Emirati flag	550 tons of dried dates	4/12/2000
31	Anwar	-	Indian flag	22 tons of dried dates
32	Turki XIII	-	Emirati flag	200 sheep
33	Najeh XII	-	-	520 goats
34	Hachem	-	Iranian	202 sheep
35	Fayez Kadiri Khasradabi	1443	-	200 tons Zahidi dried dates approximately
36	Al-Qods	7527	-	200 tons of dried dates 250 tons of leather approximately
37	Al-Shakil	1166	-	200 tons of Zahidi dried dates approximately
38	Bahari Tasnim	1029	-	360 tons of Zahidi dried dates approximately
39	Abbadan federation cooperation company	-	Iranian	100 tons of barley
40	Farid	-	Iranian	176 tons of barley 12 tons of sieved grain
41	Fath Al-Khayr	-	Iranian	5 tons of sieved wheat
42	Sabah Anwar	-	Iranian	150 tons of barley
43	Tah	3959	Emirati	1300 boxes of heaters 30 tons of urea 28 tons of dried picks 30 tons of batteries 43 tons of clover 44 tons of wheat 34 tons of Gat seeds 35 tons of Indian pea	27/9/2001
44	Hunine	3174	Emirati	100 tons of Indian pea 21 tons of clover 60 tons of mash	9/10/2001
45	Raj Sakr	11302	Indian	17 tons of dried dates	31/10/2001
46	Al-Barraq	4372	Emirati	299,620 tons of dried dates	3/11/2001
47	Ayman	3311	Emirati	300 tons of dried dates	4/11/2001
48	Al-Mahmood	-	Indian	200 tons of Indian pea and Gat seeds	29/12/2001
49	Kaysari	117	Indian	150 tons of Indian pea 35 tons of Gat seeds + wheat 6 Gayshat packs	29/12/2001
50	Lakshami Naraya	8661	Indian	250 tons of dried dates approximately	7/2/2002
51	Al-Hafez	4262	Emirates	382 tons of dried dates 29,5 tons of licorice	10/3/2002
52	Al-Rashidi	2627	Emirates	350,153 tons of dried dates	10/3/2002
53	Nouri Mahmoody	5031	India	325 tons of dried dates	22/3/2002
54	Safana Al-Nouh	5706	India	300 tons of dried dates	22/3/2002
55	Mohammad Salim	1442	India	400 tons of dried dates	22/3/2002
56	Bahari Tasnim	1029	India	300 tons of dried dates	22/3/2002
57	Al-Nader	85255315	India	260 tons of dried dates	22/3/2002
58	Ayn Al-Shams	4096	Emirates	280 tons of dried dates 15 wool 58 Dram Mesran	17/4/2002
59	Al-Qods (ex-Al-Wasl)	3695	Emirates	160 tons of dried dates 20 fodder	17/4/2002