REPATRIATING KUWAITI DOCUMENTS TO THE GOK

S E C R E T KUWAIT 001479 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 2017 TAGS: PREL PGOV KU IZ MASS SUBJECT: REPATRIATING KUWAITI DOCUMENTS TO THE GOK REF: 9/25/07 JACKSON-ROSENBERGER EMAIL Classified By: CDA Misenheimer for reasons 1.4 b and d ¶1. (S) On October 2, Charge met with Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah to discuss the repatriation of Kuwaiti government documents recovered in Iraq by the Coalition (see background below). Charge and the U/S decided on a course of action that calls for an unofficial embassy visit by a GOK official to review the material, to be followed by a Kuwaiti determination of the document disposition. After the initial review, according to the U/S, Kuwait is likely to inform and request UN High Level Coordinator Yuri Vorontsov's assistance in conducting an official transfer of the material. Background -------------- ¶2. (S) In September, Post received permission to release to the GOK two boxes of Kuwaiti documents, ranging from UNCLASS to KUWAITI TOP SECRET, from the Combined Media Processing Center (CMPC) in Qatar. According to CMPC, all of the documents were gathered in Iraq during OIF and are from 1990 or before. It is unknown whether any of these documents are part of the missing archives referred to in the Vorontsov letter of May 15, 2006 (ref a). ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s Visit Kuwait's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ ********************************************* * MISENHEIMER