India's Policy Towards the Gulf Crisis

1. The major reason cited by Iraq for annexing Kuwait was that the latter had stolen crude worth $2.4 billions from its Rumalia Oil fields.

2. The U.N. Security Council Resolution 660, in fact, demanded Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait unconditionally.

3. The Hindu , November 29, 1990.

4. The Hindu (Editorial), January 30, 1991.

5. The refuelling had started on January 9, 1991. It came to an end by the 20th February, 1991.