United Nations, Feb 25 (NNN-KUNA) UN Coordinator Yuli Vorontsov will soon lead a Kuwaiti-Iraqi delegation to Jordan to recuperate a number of spare parts belonging to Kuwait aboard six Iraqi planes stationed in Jordan since the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, a UN official told KUNA late Saturday.

Vorontsov is the UN's high-level coordinator for the return of Kuwaiti detainees and property.

"Preparations are underway," the official said, who preferred to remain unnamed, adding that the delegation would travel to Jordan in the next seven to ten days.

Vorontsov led a similar delegation to Tunisia late last year where Kuwaiti spare parts were flown back home while the Iraqi planes were still stationed in Tunisia.

Iraqi planes were grounded by the Governments in Tunisia, Jordan and other countries in compliance with UN Security Council resolutions which ordered member states to impose a freeze on Iraqi assets abroad to punish the Saddam regime at that time for invading neighbouring Kuwait on August 2, 1990.

Vorontsov's bi-annual report on both the detainees and property issues is scheduled for next June.