Persian Gulf Crisis: Humanitarian Relief Provided to Evacuees From Kuwait and Iraq
NSIAD-91-160
Published: Mar 12, 1991. Publicly Released: Mar 22, 1991.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed information on the assistance provided to foreign workers who were displaced by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, focusing on the: (1) efforts to care for and repatriate the evacuees in Jordan and Turkey; (2) roles and responsibilities of the various international organizations participating in the relief effort; (3) costs for providing care and repatriation; (4) extent of U.S. contributions; and (5) status of contingency plans for further influxes of displaced people following combat initiation on January 16, 1991.
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