A UN commission set up to obtain reparations from Iraq over the country’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait submitted its final report in Geneva on Wednesday after paying out $52.4 billion to the small Gulf state. Set up in 1991 by UN Security Council Resolution 692 to manage financial compensation owed by Iraq to Kuwait, the commission raised the funds through a five percent tax on sales of oil and other petroleum products. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein ordered his army to invade Kuwait and seize what he described as “Iraq’s 19th province” on 2 August, 1990, before being pushed back seven months later by a US-…