UN peacekeepers monitoring the Iraq-Kuwait border have said 255 violations had occurred along the frontier over a six-month period, most apparently involving US and British planes.
In a survey of the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission, known as UNIKOM, the Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, said the demilitarised zone between the countries "remained generally calm" despite the 255 violations: 10 on the ground, 8 for carrying weapons, 74 at sea and 163 in the air.
The report declined to give details of the aircraft involved, as Iraq had demanded, saying they were "flying too high to be observed or identified". It noted, however, that Baghdad had documented the flights and complained bitterly about the failure of UNIKOM to do likewise.
Meanwhile, the UN chastised Iraq for not spending enough of its oil revenues on food and rapped countries such as the US for blocking some $4 billion in goods Baghdad had ordered.
In a report on the "oil-for-food program", Mr Annan, said the $5.556 billion required for the plan for six months, ending in November, fell short due to Baghdad's stoppage of crude oil last summer. The report said Iraq underfunded a targeted nutrition program because it did not order the goods in time and because contractors were unable to supply high-protein biscuits and therapeutic milk.