IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER: HEAD OF THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE KEEPING FORCE EXPECTS US FORCES TO LEAVE SOUTHERN IRAQ SOON

Record ID: 337790

  • Title: IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER: HEAD OF THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE KEEPING FORCE EXPECTS US FORCES TO LEAVE SOUTHERN IRAQ SOON
  • Date: 3rd May 1991
  • Summary: IRAQ/KUWAIT BORDER (MAY 2, 1991) 1. SVS UN OFFICER LINING UP TROOPS, WHO MARCH OFF (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. SV/CU UN FLAG FLYING, GENERAL GREINDL SALUTING (3 SHOTS) 0.18 3. SV GREINDL SPEAKING AS NOTED (ENGLISH) ADDRESSING TROOPS 0.25 4. CU GREINDL SPEAKING AS NOTED (ENGLISH) 0.35 5. SV US SOLDIER IN FOREGROUND, MILITARY TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TAXIING ON TARMAC 0.38 6. SV US TROOPS AND US FLAG AT BASE 0.39 7. SVS IRAQI REFUGEES BOARDING AIRCRAFT, OTHERS LEAVING BUS (2 SHOTS) 0.54 8. CU UNIDENTIFIED US OFFICER SPEAKING (ENGLISH) AS NOTED 1.01 9. GV CONVOY OF UN VEHICLES MOVING ALONG ROAD 1.05 10. SVS UN TROOPS DISEMBARKING FROM VEHICLES, LINING UP INSIDE CAMP (3 SHOTS) 1.17 11. CU UN SOLDIER SPEAKING (ENGLISH) AS NOTED 1.25 12. SV GREINDL AND AIDES INSPECTING UN PEACE-KEEPING FORCE 1.29 13. SV/PAN US TROOPS IN FOREGROUND, MILITARY TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TAKING OFF IN DISTANCE 1.38 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 3, GREINDL: "YOU MUST BE FAIR, FIRM AND FRIENDLY." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 4, GREINDL: "MY TIMETABLE IS, THAT BY THE EIGHTH OF MAY, THE UN ZONE SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED, AND WE WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OPERATION." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE, 8: UNIDENTIFIED US OFFICER: "WE'RE PULLING OUT OVER A THOUSAND A DAY NOW, AND WE CAN PUSH THAT UP AS OUR ABILITY TO PROCESS THEM GETS BETTER." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE, 11: UNIDENTIFIED UN SOLDIER: " THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALKS ABOUT HOW DANGEROUS IT WOULD BE, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT IT HAS BEEN GOOD." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th May 1991 13:00
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  • Location: IRAQI/KUWAIT BORDER
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADOK734EPHU3VEDWPL5I2NHOZ3
  • Story Text: IRAQI/KUWAIT BORDER

    The head of the United Nations (UN) peace keeping force, Major-General Gunther Greindl, said on Thursday (May 2) he expected United States (US) forces to leave southern Iraq by May 3.

    Greindl made the announcement, after addressing about 300 UN soldiers from Austria, Ghana, Fiji, Nepal and Denmark at a military base west of Kuwait City.

    After the address most of the soldiers boarded trucks headed for the security zone, on the Kuwait-Iraq border, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Doha. The UN force will replace the US troops in the security zone. One UN soldier said the mission was dangerous and he had thought carefully about it.

    About 5,000 US soldiers from the 3rd Armoured Division are the last American forces in southern Iraq. They have been protecting thousands of Iraqi refugees in the border area since shortly after the Gulf war ended in February. The troops have also transported thousands to refugee camps in Saudi Arabia.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS (C)</strong>
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