The Jordanian daily E1 Jihad today reported that several Arab Governments have informed the United Nations and certain Western Powers that they would accept large scale financial compensation in return for a liquidation of the “Palestine refugee problem.”
The development, the paper said, was first revealed in the course of debate in the Lebanese Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee headed by Foreign Minister Philip Takla.
According to the report, members of the committee said they received “most accurate information on the matter” and that some Arab Governments proposed the liquidation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency services and the striking off of the item from the agenda of the UN General Assembly in exchange for annual financial compensation or a lump sum to the host countries.
(Arab League efforts to set up some form of Palestinian state were deadlocked this weekend when the League’s Political Committee meeting in Cairo voted to turn the issue over to an Arab Foreign Ministers Meeting scheduled for next February. Observers at the meeting said that the Jordanian delegates demanded that the question be handled by the foreign ministers.)
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