* Baghdad wants U.N. to press ahead with bombings probe (Adds comments from U.N. official, Iraqi envoy)

By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 16 (Reuters) – The United Nations is outlining a plan to help Iraq end its dispute with neighboring Kuwait over war reparations, 19 years after Baghdad invaded the oil-producing Gulf state, a U.N. official said on Monday.

Baghdad wants the U.N. Security Council to reduce its reparation payments to Kuwait, which it ordered Iraq to pay after the 1991 Gulf war ended Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s 1990-1991 occupation of Kuwait.

Iraq says the reparations — more than $20 billion — are unfair and wants the amount reduced so it has more money for reconstruction and development. It has called for annulling Security Council decisions requiring the payments under Chapter 7 of the U.N. charter.

U.N. special envoy to Iraq Ad Melkert told a meeting of the 15-nation council on Iraq that a top priority was the “normalization of (Iraq’s) regional relations, not least with Kuwait, and the related exit from Chapter 7 provisions.”

Melkert said the U.N. mission in Iraq would outline a plan for achieving this.

“We will seek consent of both parties to define a mutually agreed agenda, the completion of which should resolve any remaining issues and should normalize Iraq’s position within the U.N.,” he said.

Kuwait opposes ending Iraq’s Chapter 7 status. But council diplomats say they might vote to lift the restrictions in the coming months, paving the way for Iraq to renegotiate the amount of reparations it pays to Kuwait.

OTHER ISSUES

Melkert told reporters that the proposal would cover an array of disputes between Kuwait and Iraq.

In addition to reparations, there is the issue of agreeing on the precise land and sea borders between Iraq and Kuwait, he said. Kuwait also demands information related to its missing citizens and the return of property the Kuwaiti government says was stolen during the occupation.

At the end of July Iraq owed some $25.5 billion in reparations, $24 billion to Kuwait alone.

Melkert said an agreement would likely have to wait until after Iraq’s parliamentary elections set for January.

Iraq’s U.N. ambassador, Hamid al-Bayati, told reporters that Baghdad was trying to locate some 600 Kuwaitis, a process that could take a long time.

He said that the lifting of Iraq’s Chapter 7 status should not have to wait until all missing persons were found or their bodies identified.

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Parliament did NOT discuss the VETO on Saturday, hopefully that’s because it was unnecessary? We will see.

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