A decision to form a new committee of property experts drawn from all Arab countries to work out official Arab estimates on the value of Arab refugee property in Israel and to deal with the United Nations Conciliation Commission on Palestine which handles this issue, was adopted yesterday at a meeting of the Arab League Council in Cairo, it was reported here today from the Egyptian capital. The Council urged the Arab states to adopt a unified stand on the property question.
At the meeting, which was devoted primarily to the question of Arab refugees’ property rights in Israel, the Council attacked the report of an American expert of the United Nations Conciliation Commission on Palestine assessing the value of the property. No figures from the report have been disclosed. But the Arabs, it was reported, regard the property estimates of the American expert as too low.
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