In a letter to the council president, Sheikh Mohammad, also Deputy Prime Minister, recalled that the council decided in resolution 1859 of last December to review the resolutions pertaining specifically to Iraq, beginning with the adoption of resolution 661 of 1990, and requested the Secretary-General in that regard to report, after consultations with Iraq, on whether Baghdad has implemented its obligations under those various resolutions so that it can get out of Chapter 7 of the UN Charter and the punitive measures that are associated with it.
In his letter, transmitted to the council by Kuwaiti UN Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad, Sheikh Mohammad stressed Kuwait’s past and future support to "fraternal Iraq" in achieving its "rightful international standing, which the former Iraqi regime impaired through its attack on and occupation of my country on August 2, 1990." As a result of that attack, he argued, "Iraq became subject to obligations prescribed in Security Council resolutions that were adopted pursuant to the Charter of the United Nations, chapter VII, under the agenda item entitled ‘The situation between Iraq and Kuwait’. My country expects those resolutions to be implemented in full." He emphasized that the two issues of Kuwaiti and third country national detainees and missing persons and the return of Kuwaiti property are "of the greatest humanitarian and social importance to my country and the other countries concerned." "Unfortunately, however, no perceptible progress has been made for many years in respect of those files. To date, the fate of only 236 of a total of 605 missing persons has been uncovered.