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TO IMMEDIATE BAGHDAD
TELNO 911
OF 28180OZ SEPTEMBER 90
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AND TO IMMEDIATE UKMIS NEW YORK, UKREP BRUSSELS, WASHINGTON AND TO IMMEDIATE MOSCOW, TOKYO, PARIS, BONN, ROME, NEW DELHI AND TO IMMEDIATE ISLAMABAD, DHAKA, MANILA
INFO IMMEDIATE OTHER EC POSTS
FROM ROSEMARY SPENCER
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YOUR TELNO 1435 (NOT TO ALL) : IRAQ/KUWAIT : IMPOUNDING OF ASSETS AND LOSS/DAMAGE/INJURY ARISING FROM IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT
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WE ARE CONSIDERING WHAT ADVICE TO GIVE MINISTERS ON ACTION TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO DECREE NO 377 AND THE OVERALL LOSS AND INJURY SUSTAINED BY HMG AND UK NATIONALS ARISING FROM IRAQ'S INVASION OF KUWAIT.
2. WE SHALL NEED TO PUT ON RECORD WITH THE IRAQIS BILATERALLY OUR REJECTION OF DECREE NO 377, WHICH SCR 670 AFFIRMED IS CONTRARY TO THE UN CHARTER AND NULL AND VOID. THE PROTEST WOULD. RESERVE ALL HMG'S RIGHTS AND THOSE OF BRITISH COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO FULL RESTITUTION OR COMPENSATION FOR ANY DAMAGE TO BRITISH RIGHTS, INTERESTS, OR PROPERTY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE DECREE.
3.
THE TERMS OF OUR DEMARCHE WOULD ALSO INCLUDE RESERVATION OF HMG'S RIGHTS AND THOSE OF UK NATIONALS AND COMPANIES, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO CLAIM RESTITUTION OR COMPENSATION FROM IRAQ FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE, OR INJURY TO HMG OR TO UK NATIONALS AND COMPANIES RESULTING FROM OTHER IRAQI ACTS SINCE THEIR ILLEGAL INVASION OF
KUWAIT.
4.
WE INTEND TO MAKE OUR DEMARCHE PUBLIC AND AT THE SAME TIME TO INVITE UK COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS TO NOTIFY US OF LOSSES AND DAMAGE SUFFERED SO FAR (THERE WILL BE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR NOTIFICATION LATER). THIS WILL ENABLE US TO BUILD UP AN OVERALL PICTURE AND ENSURE THE NECESSARY EVIDENCE IS PLACED ON RECORD FOR USE. IN THE EVENT OF CLAIMS BEING MADE. THIS NOTIFICATION WILL NOT (NOT) CONSTITUTE A REGISTER OF CLAIMS, NOR
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