S - Security Council - Identical letters dated 12 April 2021 from the Permanent

United Nations S/2021/355 Security Council Distr.: General 14 April 2021 English Original: Arabic Identical letters dated 12 April 2021 from the Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council On instructions from my Government, and with reference to the provisions of Security Council resolution 2107 (2013) and t. [...] Determined to strengthen its bonds with the kindred nation of Iraq, and acting within the context of the Tripartite Commission and its Technical Subcommittee, Kuwait handed over to the Iraqi Government on 30 March 2021 the remains of an Iraqi soldier that were found on Bubiyan island, in the north of the country, in February 2021. [...] Acting through the Tripartite Commission and in accordance with the decisions taken in that regard, and following up on the information and coordinates provided by the United Kingdom and the United States of America at the meetings of the Tripartite Commission, Kuwait has cooperated in the search for sites and the identification of burial sites of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait. [...] The aforementioned items were handed over at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait in the presence of representatives of both parties, in addition to the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the resident coordinator in Kuwait. [...] It is also grateful to the Governments of Saudi Arabia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France, the members of the Tripartite Commission and the Technical Subcommittee, ICRC and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) for all their efforts, through the work of the Tripartite Committee and the Technical Subcommittee, which have helped to ascertain the fate of the.