U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said "as many as three or four" oil wells may be burning on the Iraqi side of the Iraq-Kuwait border.
U.S. President George W. Bush wants the lifting of U.N. trade sanctions on Iraq -- imposed in 1990 after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
The Czech Parliament also has authorized about 400 Czech weapons experts -- who had been stationed in Kuwait -- to operate in Iraq.
"We wish to reach a brotherly accord and re-establish relations between Iraq and Kuwait, " Mr Ibrahim said.
OPEC's 11 members -- Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela -- are heavily reliant on oil export revenues.
Gaffney noted that this is a threat that goes well beyond the menace posed by Iraq's aggression against Kuwait -- and one that is likely to remain even if Saddam Hussein ultimately withdraws from and relinquishes control over the emirate.
Under Mubarak, Egypt was a major player in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and it contributed troops to the U.S.-led coalition that drove Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991.
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Kuwait and Iraq have ended a 14-year hiatus in diplomatic relations.
Iraq's pavilion includes artists such as Ahmed Alsoudani and Halim al Karim, who grew up experiencing the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, economic sanctions and subsequent artistic isolation.
He delivered on-the-ground coverage of the military build up in Iraq and Kuwait in 2003, including embedding with the 1st Battalion of the 7th Marines.
The 1980-89 Iran-Iraq war, followed by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent 12 years of sanctions, cut off the emirate from family and trading ties in its natural hinterland.
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It is also, unfortunately, all too reminiscent of the Bush-Baker approach to Iraq prior to Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait.
But its actual behaviour is much the same as it was during the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1993-94 and in the aftermath of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Saddam, who faced a U.S.-led alliance in the 1991 Gulf War following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, said he doubted that Washington would respond violently if the attackers were from a Western country.
The one notable exception to this is Kuwait, where most people hold bitter memories of Iraq's seven-month occupation.
Twenty-three countries comprise the Arab League, but only Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iran are major oil producers.
Kuwait has meanwhile marked the anniversary by again calling on Iraq to return more than six-hundred prisoners it says Baghdad is still holding.
In 2003, Gupta reported from Iraq and Kuwait as an embedded correspondent with the U.S. Navy's medical unit -- and worked alongside them, performing brain surgery five times.
Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.
The UN administered the oil-for-food programme from 1996 to 2003, when Saddam Hussein's Iraq was under sanctions for having invaded Kuwait.
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