The mission of the team U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan intended to send to Is

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan abandoned efforts Wednesday to send a fact-finding mission to the Jenin refugee camp after Israel first gave a green light and then said the mission was biased. In a letter to the U. N. Security Council, Annan said the team would be disbanded on Thursday. Annan initially appointed the three-member team of fact-finders April 19 with the assurance of Israeli cooperation, but then ran into Israeli objections over the group’s composition. After Israel’s Security Cabinet announced that it couldn’t accept the team without a major overhaul, the secretary-general told the council, "It seems evident that the team will not be able to proceed to the area to begin its mission in the near future."