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Deadline set for Gulf War claims
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Posted on May 26 2006
The Philippine government’s Department of Foreign Affairs has announced that the United Nations Compensation Commission Governing Council in Geneva, during its 56th session, has set Sept. 30, 2006, as the final deadline in locating and paying Gulf War claimants who had been affected by the 1980 Iraq-Kuwait war and with approved claims from the UNCC.
Philippine Claims and Compensation Committee Secretariat Secretary General Minda C. Cruz stated that based on PCCCS records, there are still Gulf War claimants who have not coordinated with PCCCS despite efforts to reach them through mail, saturation drives within Philippine Foreign Service Posts. She said that PCCCS now calls on these claimants to coordinate with the office at the soonest possible time.
“These claimants must coordinate with PCCCS before the set deadline because, after Sept. 30 2006, UNCC will no longer entertain Philippine Government requests for the return of funds to be paid to applicants whose claims have already been approved by the UNCC,” said Cruz.
She added that the “PCCCS now calls on all OFWs who were affected by the war in Iraq and Kuwait in 1990 and who have claims approved by the UNCC to call the office at telephone number 832-5303, or visit us at the 3rd floor of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Pasay City so that they can find out if they are included in the UNCC list of approved claims.”
A list of the concerned Gulf War claimants is available at the Philippine Consulate General’s Office at the Nauru Building in Susupe. (PR)
