The United Nations began the process of collecting damage claims from Israel’s West Bank security barrier. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan announced Tuesday that he had sent a letter to the General Assembly president outlining a framework to record damages from the fence, as demanded in a General Assembly resolution last summer blasting the fence and ordering Israel to dismantle it. “The purpose of the register is not to adjudicate claims of damage but to collect them for possible future adjudication and compensation,” the United Nations said in a background note, The Associated Press reported.
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