The consequences of conflict do not end when arms are laid down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For families of those who remain missing, uncertainty over the fate of a loved one can endure for generations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Helping families to know the fate of their loved ones is an enduring humanitarian imperative.<\/p>\n
President, 315 Kuwaiti and third-country nationals remain missing, and there have been no new identifications were made since the Secretary-General\u2019s last report.<\/p>\n
This underlines both the difficulty of the task and the importance of sustaining our efforts and pursuing every credible avenue that could provide families with answers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We welcome the work of the Secretary-General\u2019s Senior Representative, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Tripartite Commission.<\/p>\n
And the United Kingdom is proud to support these efforts as a member of the Commission.<\/p>\n
We also welcome the practical steps being taken including DNA analysis, the use of geospatial tools, the revised communication strategy and renewed calls for witnesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We hope these approaches can help unlock further progress.<\/p>\n
But technology alone cannot provide all of the answers.<\/p>\n
Credible witness information remains essential, and the number of potential witnesses will diminish with time.<\/p>\n
We therefore encourage anyone who may hold relevant information to come forward, and all those involved to continue efforts to identify potential witnesses and following up every credible lead.<\/p>\n
It will also be important to establish a shared and practical basis for measuring progress.<\/p>\n
We encourage the Tripartite Commission to agree practical indicators that can help focus collective efforts, and provide an objective basis for assessing progress ahead of the Council\u2019s review in 2028.<\/p>\n
President, we also encourage renewed engagement on the separate issue of missing Kuwaiti property, including the national archives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This should include the resumption of the Joint Committee on missing Kuwaiti property.<\/p>\n
Finally, the mechanism established by Resolution 2792 provides an opportunity to sustain cooperation and build mutual trust.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We welcome the Senior Representative\u2019s continued engagement with both countries, and we will continue to support her mandate.<\/p>\n
The United Kingdom remains committed to working with Iraq, Kuwait, and our partners in the Tripartite Commission towards our shared goal: providing answers to families who have waited for far too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The consequences of conflict do not end when arms are laid down.\u00a0 For families of those who remain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}