The UN offers help to resolve North-East land issues

MG! The UN wants to help resolve land issues in the northeast of jour country. Wow! sounds like something out of “Bob Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not’.

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Our sister paper the “Sunday Times’ quoted UN Resident Coordinator Mare-Andre French as sayinga new United Nations programme aims to assist our government in resolving longstanding land-related issues in our country’s war-affected northern and eastern provinces. According to Marc-Andre, a large number of claims remain unresolved despite it being sixteen long years since the ethnic war ended.

Why on earth does Marc-Andre believe the UN has expertise in this field? Is the UN Resident Representative so cut off from reality, that he is unaware of the problem the UN created over 78 years ago when it divided the then undivided and peaceful state of Palestine?

It then proceeded to resolve land issues arising from the newly created countries.Under the UN division of land (UN Resolution 181), Palestinians -- original residents -- comprising around 66.3% of the total population were allocated proximately 11,500 square kms or 43% of the land. The proposed Jewish state comprising around 33.7% _ of the population, received approximately 15,200 square kilometers (about 56% of the land).

The plan also stipulated that Jerusalem would become an internationally administered city, making up the remaining portion of the territory.