HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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to hand over control of its oil operations to the United Nations
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to make payments to the families of those killed during the conflict
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to allow international inspectors to make regular visits to Iraqi weapons factories
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to hold free and fair elections that would be monitored by the international community
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Detailed explanation-1: -The original stated purposes of the sanctions were to compel Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, to pay reparations, and to disclose and eliminate any weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In December 2021, Iraq’s central bank announced that it had paid off its entire debt of $52 billion in war reparations to Kuwait.
Detailed explanation-2: -On August 7, 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush orders the organization of Operation Desert Shield in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2.
Detailed explanation-3: -In early 1990, Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through cross-border slant drilling, although some Iraqi sources indicated that Saddam Hussein’s decision to attack Kuwait was already made a few months before the actual invasion.
Detailed explanation-4: -It requires Iraq to destroy all of its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons capability as well as missiles with a range of more than 150 kilometers and to allow verification by inspectors from the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).