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(g) To ensure free exercise of political opposition and to prevent intimidation
and repression of political opponents and their families;
(h) To respect the rights of all ethnic and religious groups and to cease
immediately its repressive practices aimed at the Iraqi Kurds, Assyrians and
Turkmen, in particular their deportation from the regions of Kirkuk and Khanaqin,
and at the population of the southern marsh areas, where drainage projects have
provoked environmental destruction and a deterioration of the situation of the
civilian population, as well as to ensure the physical integrity of all citizens,
including the Shi’a population, and to guarantee their freedoms;
(i) To cooperate with the Tripartite Commission and its Technical
Subcommittee to establish the whereabouts and resolve the fate of the remaining
several hundred missing persons, including prisoners of war, Kuwaiti nationals and
third-country nationals, victims of the illegal Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, to
cooperate with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances of
the Commission on Human Rights for that purpose, to cooperate with the high-level
coordinator of the Secretary-General for Kuwaitis and third-country nationals and
Kuwaiti property, to pay compensation to the families of those who died or
disappeared in the custody of the Iraqi authorities, through the mechanism
established by the Security Council in resolution 692 (1991) of 20 May 1991, to
release immediately all Kuwaitis and nationals of other States who may still be held
in detention and inform families about the whereabouts of arrested persons, to
provide information about death sentences imposed on prisoners of war and civilian
detainees, and to issue death certificates for deceased prisoners of war and civilian
detainees;
(j) To cooperate further with international aid agencies and nongovernmental organizations in providing humanitarian assistance and monitoring in
the northern and southern areas of the country;
(k) To continue to cooperate in the implementation of Security Council
resolutions 986 (1995), 1111 (1997), 1143 (1997), 1153 (1998), 1210 (1998),
1242 (1999), 1266 (1999), 1281 (1999) and 1302 (2000), and to cooperate, together
with all concerned, in the implementation of the sections on humanitarian questions
of Council resolution 1284 (1999), to ensure fully the timely and equitable
distribution, without discrimination, to the Iraqi population, including the population
in remote areas, of all humanitarian supplies purchased under the oil-forhumanitarian-goods programme, to address effectively the needs of vulnerable
groups, including children, pregnant women, the disabled, the elderly and the
mentally ill, among others, to facilitate the work of United Nations humanitarian
personnel in Iraq by ensuring the free and unobstructed movement of observers
throughout the country, as well as their free access, without any discrimination, to
all the population, and to ensure that involuntarily displaced persons receive
humanitarian assistance without the need to demonstrate that they have resided for
six months at their places of temporary residence;
(l) To cooperate in the identification of minefields existing throughout Iraq
with a view to facilitating their marking and eventual clearing;
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