KUWAIT, Sept 10: Kuwait said on Saturday it was discussing with Iraq handing over a long list of crimes committed by former occupier Saddam Hussein whose trial begins next month.

Justice Minister Ahmad Baqer said the documents will be handed over to a tribunal trying Saddam and other former aides under judicial cooperation between the two countries, which resumed ties after Saddam’s ouster in 2003.

“There are contacts between the Kuwaiti and Iraqi foreign ministries,” Baqer told reporters when asked when the file will be handed over to Iraqi authorities.

Baqer said that in the documents, Kuwait demanded that Saddam be sentenced to death for crimes committed against Kuwait during the 1990-91 Iraqi occupation.—Reuters