The Security Council, by its resolution 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991, decided to set up the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM). In its resolution 689 (1991) of 9 April 1991, the Council noted that the observer unit could be terminated only by a decision of the Council and that the Council should therefore review the question of termination or continuation of UNIKOM, as well as its modalities of operation, every six months.
The Security Council, by its resolution 1490 (2003) of 3 July 2003, decided to continue the mandate of UNIKOM for a final period until 6 October 2003; decided also to end the demilitarized zone extending 10 kilometres into Iraq and 5 kilometres into Kuwait from the Iraq-Kuwait border at the end of the mandate of UNIKOM; and directed the Secretary-General to negotiate the transfer of the Mission's non-removable property and of those assets that could not be disposed otherwise to the States of Kuwait and Iraq, as appropriate.
At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in June 2005, the General Assembly took note of the report of the Secretary-General on the final disposition of the assets of the Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (decision 59/565). |
