The UN Compensation Commission in Geneva has paid out $391 MILLION on 25 January, with money from Iraqi Oil revenues. These claims concerned, it seems, environmental remediation.
In this round, Bosnia and Herzegovina received $10,000,000. Kuwait received $326,535,807 (some $272,000,000 went to the Government, and the rest to corporations). Russian Federation received nearly $7,000,000. Turkey received $12,000,000. The U.S. received nearly $10,000,000.
India and Saudi Arabia returned money from previous over-payments, apparently.
The UN Compensation Commission, a body created by the UN Security Council, has now paid out $21,809,642,254.71 of Iraq’s oil revenues, to compensate for losses and damage Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, and its subsequent occupation of Kuwait. The U.S.-led “Desert Storm” coalition expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait in the spring of 1991.
Compensation payments started in June 1994.
For the past five years, payments have been made quarterly, in January, April, July and October.
Wonder how much of this money really goes to the individuals who were forced to leave Iraq and Kuwait in 1991.
Well so long one can milk the cow ( which is producing un-metered oil) so much the better for some countries at the expense of the war-torn Iraqis.
Sad that Iraq innocent and poor citizens are suffering – no school, constant bombing in some areas, no sanitation, no electricity and no proper hospitals.
Actually, it might be possible to determine the total payments to individuals (through their governments, of course — payments were not made directly to individuals), now that almost all documents have been posted to the UN Compensation Commission website (www.uncc.ch). But, these documents are not easy to interpret, and much of the time the UNCC has deliberately tried to obfuscate the decisions that were being made.