Instructions to prepare for liquidation of its activities were received from United Nations headquarters by the main office of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Arab Refugees, at Beirut. The Agency’s mandate expires, officially, on June 30, 1960.
The liquidation orders are believed to be merely a formal step, since there is virtually no doubt that either UNRWA, or an agency similar to it, will continue to aid the Arab refugees beyond the summer of 1960. The UNRWA offices have been instructed to prepare to hand over their affairs to a successor organization.
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