Latest Soviet Peace Plan of 22 February 1991 ¹

        The six points of the Soviet plan as listed by the Soviet presidential spokesman, Mr. Ignatenko, were:

1. Iraq agrees to carry out resolution 660 of the United Nations Security Council calling on it to withdraw its forces immediately and unconditionally from Kuwait to positions they occupied before invading the emirate on August 2 last year.
2. The troops withdrawal would begin the day after a cease-fire in all military operations in the area, on land, sea and in the air.
3. The troop withdrawal will be completed within 21 days, including a pullout from Kuwait City within four days.
4. Once the withdrawal has been completed, all UN Security Council resolutions on the crisis will lose their force because the reasons for them will have been removed.
5. All war prisoners will be freed and repatriated within three days after a cease-fire and the end of military operations.
6. Monitoring of the cease-fire and withdrawal will be carried out by observers or peacekeeping forces as determined by the Security Council.

(Times of India, 23 February 1991)

1A. G. Noorani, The Gulf Wars, Documents and Analysis, Konark Publishers PVT LTD, Delhi, 1991, pp. 320-321.

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