KUWAIT: UNITED NATIONS STEPS UP EVACUATION OF NON-ESSENTIAL STAFF FROM KUWAIT-IRAQ BORDER

Record ID: 338143

  • Title: KUWAIT: UNITED NATIONS STEPS UP EVACUATION OF NON-ESSENTIAL STAFF FROM KUWAIT-IRAQ BORDER
  • Date: 13th March 2003
  • Summary: (U3) ROAD FROM THE BORDER WITH IRAQ TO KUWAIT CITY (MARCH 12, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) VEHICLES' CONVOY ON THE ROAD 0.05 2. MV U.N. OFFICERS ON THE ROAD STANDING 0.10 3. CLOSE UP OF U.N. OFFICER SGT BILLAL 0.15 4. SLV U.N. OFFICERS AND VEHICLES; PAN OF A U.N. BUS IN THE CONVOY; MV TWO U.N. OFFICERS WATCHING THRO
  • Embargoed: 28th March 2003 12:00
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  • Location: NEAR THE IRAQI BORDER AND KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT
  • Country: Kuwait
  • Reuters ID: LVA2T2XOGDHH8CVPAEXIBST4ZVPU
  • Story Text: The United Nations has stepped up the evacuation of the
    non-essential staff from the Kuwait-Iraq border area in
    anticipation of the outbreak of hostilities.

    United Nations monitors stepped up their evacuation of
    the border area between Kuwait and Iraq on Wednesday (March
    12, 2003) with the removal of a further convoy of 12 vehicles.

    The U.N. announced plans at the weekend to evacuate 155
    non-essential military staff in addition to 155 civilian
    staff.

    A convoy of United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission
    (UNIKOM) has made the journey from a location near Kuwait's
    border with Iraq to Kuwait City.

    The United Nations has declared it would evacuate its
    forces from the 15km demilitarised zone separating Iraq and
    Kuwait in the event of a US invasion of Iraq.

    The zone was created in 1991, shortly after the Gulf war,
    and has been patrolled since by a mainly Bangladeshi UN force
    known as Unikom.

    In total, Unikom numbers 775 Bangladeshi soldiers and 195
    military observers drawn from the armed forces of China,
    Russia, France, Britain and the US.


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