UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (Xinhuanet) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan said here Wednesday that he intends to disband a U.N. fact-
finding team directed to investigate allegations of excessive
killing and destruction in a Palestinian refugee camp.
   In a letter to the U.N. Security Council, Annan said, "It is my
intention to disband the fact-finding team tomorrow."
   Annan made the decision after Israel decided it would not allow
investigators to launch its inquiry in the Jenin refugee camp in
the West Bank.
   Annan, who made telephone conversations with high-level Israeli
officials over the past two days, said, "With the situation in the
Jenin refugee camp changing by the day, it will become more and
more difficult to establish with any confidence or accuracy the '
recent events' that took place there."
   Israel has raised a series of objections on the mandate and
composition of the U.N. fact-finding panel, now stalled in Geneva.
Annan assembled the team nearly two weeks ago following
Palestinian charges, denied by Israel, that a massacre had taken
place there.
   The Israeli cabinet decided Tuesday not to cooperate with the U.
N. inquiry until its six demands were met concerning the team's
mandate and composition, despite days of negotiations between the
United Nations and Israel on those issues.
   Annan, in turn, made it clear that he was not willing to
tolerate further discussion with Israel over the fact-finding team.
   "Throughout this process, the U.N. has made every effort to
accommodate the concerns of the government of Israel, within the
mandate given to me by the Security Council," Annan said in the
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