41.   Canada went public Wednesday with an offer to accept Palestinian refugees as part of a negotiated Middle East peace plan.

42.   Canh Nguyen-Tang, the coordinator for Bangladesh-Burma Repatriation Operation, is in Dhaka to persuade the Bangladesh authorities to accept the refugees.

43.   Council members also welcomed efforts by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to tackle the refugee problem and thanked donor nations who accept refugees on a temporary basis.

44.   Denmark and Sweden also said they would accept refugees, with numbers to be decided this week.

45.   Foreign Affairs spokesman Sulaiman Abdulmanan said earlier Tuesday that Jakarta was considering accepting the refugees, some of whom are ill.

46.   France has so far been silent on accepting refugees.

47.   He acknowledged that Canada bore guilt because it refused to accept Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi tyranny.

48.   However, Norway does not accept economic refugees.

49.   However, Sharon said Israel would not be able to accept Palestinian refugees.

50.   However, he declined to specify which countries had agreed to accept the refugees.