UN General Assembly
1993

long and which Iraq exploited in a bid to secure territorial expansion, to exercise regional hegemony, and to gain political, strategic and material concessions at the expense of Kuwait and the other Gulf States. The demarcation of the boundary between Kuwait and Iraq is a major contribution by the international community to the elimination of a volatile hotbed of regional tension which the Iraqi regime used to exploit in creating an atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust and which culminated in its vicious invasion of the State of Kuwait. Kuwait responded positively to the Secretary- General’s acceptance of the outcome of the border demarcation process. In our response, we also reaffirmed our sincere cooperation with the United Nations despite the fact that Kuwait had voted against some Commission decisions which denied Kuwait its rights in Khowr Zhobeir. Iraq, for its part, responded with two letters to the Secretary-General. The first in May 1992, following the demarcation of the land boundary, and the second in June 1993 following the demarcation of the maritime boundary. Both letters