World IN BRIEF : IRAQ : Return of Kuwaiti Riches Set, U.N. Says
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
U.N. officials said Iraq has agreed to begin returning by Monday the Kuwaiti currency and estimated hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of gold it plundered after invading the emirate. Gold and Kuwaiti bank notes and coins are to be handed over at Arar, a remote town on the Saudi Arabian-Iraqi border, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity at the United Nations. Baghdad’s official Iraqi News Agency, monitored in Cyprus, said the return of antiquities and artwork taken from Kuwait’s national museum will begin one week later.
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