The publicity prompted Namibia to seek their return.
They were last known to reside in Bangkok, and authorities were seeking their return to New York.
Greece has long sought their return but has never previously taken legal action.
After the priceless gem and other jewels were stolen from a Saudi royal palace by a Thai worker, three Saudi diplomats seeking their return were murdered in Bangkok.
Both paintings had been confiscated by the Nazis from their prewar Jewish owners, and heirs to those owners were seeking their return as stolen art.
If he had accepted the soldiers' kidnapping, and sought their return through diplomacy, most Israeli analysts are agreed that he would have been finished.
After four new ministers resigned Tuesday in protest of the continued role of the R.C.D., the French initials for the Constitutional Democratic Rally, Mr. Amamou wrote that the government planned to seek their return instead of replacing them.
During the Iraq war, the United States also removed Baath Party documents, and Iraq is seeking their return, too, on grounds that the Iraqi public can learn from them about their past leaders' mistakes.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oct. 20 - Three years after six men were accused of plotting to blow up the American and British Embassies here, the Bosnian government is seeking their return.
