UN Security Council
2003

successfully fulfilled its mandate from 1991 to 2003, Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, 1. Decides to continue the mandate of UNIKOM for a final period until 6 October 2003; 2. Directs the Secretary-General to negotiate the transfer of UNIKOM’s nonremovable property and of those assets that cannot be disposed otherwise to the States of Kuwait and Iraq, as appropriate; 3. Decides to end the demilitarized zone extending 10 kilometres into Iraq and 5 kilometres into Kuwait from the Iraq-Kuwait border at the end of UNIKOM’s mandate on 6 October 2003; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council on the completion of UNIKOM’s mandate; 5. Expresses its appreciation of the decision of the Government of Kuwait to defray since 1 November 1993 two thirds of the cost of the Observation Mission; 6. Decides to remain seized of the matter. 03-41706 (E) *0341706*