UNIKOM observers continue pull back from border with Iraq

Описание: (11 Mar 2003) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of UNIKOM (United Nations Iraq Kuwait Observer Mission) convoy on highway
2. Police car at front of convoy, UN vehicles follow flying blue UN flags
3. Various of UNIKOM trucks in convoy
4. Tracking shot past trucks and other vehicles
5. Low shot of convoy passing
6. UNIKOM bus passing, zoom into UNIKOM personnel inside waving to camera, pans to back of convoy leaving


STORYLINE:

United Nations personnel stationed in Kuwait to monitor the country's ceasefire with Iraq continued a phased withdrawal from the common border on Tuesday.

UNIKOM (United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission) observers are being pulled out in expectation of a US-led assault into Iraq and across the border they control.

All non-essential staff are being moved to Kuwait City leaving only a small skeleton staff on the 170km de-militarised buffer zone.

The 20 vehicle convoy transported surplus weapons and ammunition from the border, including AK47s, machine gun ammunition and rocket propelled grenades.

The weapons are now being stored at a Kuwaiti air base.

UNIKOM was established in 1991 after a cease fire when an international coalition forced Iraqi troops out of Kuwait and is made up of a battalion of soldiers from Bangladesh.

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