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ensure the personal integrity and freedoms of all citizens, including the Shi’a
population;
(j) 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;
(k) To cooperate further with international aid agencies and nongovernmental organizations to provide humanitarian assistance and monitoring in
the northern and southern areas of the country;
(l) 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), 1302 (2000), 1330 (2000), 1352 (2001) and
1360 (2001), as well as to cooperate, together with all concerned, in the
implementation of the humanitarian sections of Security Council resolution
1284 (1999), to continue its efforts to ensure fully the timely and equitable
distribution, without discrimination, to the Iraqi population, including in remote
areas, of all humanitarian supplies purchased under the oil-for-food programme, to
address effectively the needs of persons requiring special attention, such as children,
pregnant women, the disabled, the elderly and the mentally ill, among others, further
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;
(m) To cooperate in the identification of the minefields existing throughout
Iraq, with a view to facilitating their marking and eventual clearing;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with
all necessary assistance in carrying out his mandate, and decides to continue the
examination of the situation of human rights in Iraq at its fifty-seventh session,
under the item entitled “Human rights questions”, in the light of additional elements
provided by the Commission on Human Rights.
88th plenary meeting
19 December 2001
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