Iraq says paid $50 bln in war reparations to Kuwait

Iraqi adviser says country’s dues to Kuwait amount to $2.5 billion

BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq has so far paid $49.5 billion in war reparations to Kuwait, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday.


“Iraq’s dues now amount to only $2.5 billion,” Mazhar Salih, an adviser to the prime minister, told Al-Sabaah newspaper.


In 1991, the UN obliged Baghdad to pay $52.4 billion in compensation to individuals, companies, governmental organizations and others who incurred losses resulting from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.


Salih said the Iraqi government is deducting 3% of oil revenues to pay the remaining compensation to Kuwait following the 1991 Iraqi invasion of its Gulf neighbor.


“The remaining war reparations are expected to be paid within a year or so,” he said.


In May 2020, Iraqi lawmaker Hanin Qaddo told Anadolu Agency that Baghdad had asked Kuwait to postpone the payment of $3.7 billion in war reparations to the Gulf state.


Ahmed Asmar contributed to this report from Ankara

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