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T n dec Emrys to 1300 Germany welcomes allies decision to attend e. Berlin anniversary events Bonn fall the German a ovum Inch Genscher called the Allied decision City s soviet administered zone. A e govern ment on Friday praised the Western Al lies decision to attend the Start of communist East Berlin s City anniversary ceremonies saying it would help pro mole Unity transcending the Berlin  sources wednesday Dis closed the British French and . Ambassadors to East Germany would be present at the Jan. 1 music concert kick me off the East German government s Celebration of Berlin s 750th anniversary. The decision to attend was based anime Allied Powers conclusion that accept ing the East German official invitation would not amount to acknowledging the communist claim on East Berlin As East Germany s capital City analysts said. By Allied occupation treaty the Cit has been split into Western and communist controlled sectors is Nee 194s. Many special events Are scheduled on both sides of the Berlin Wall to Mark the City s anniversary next year. But East West divisions have largely blocked joint preparations thus  Bonn foreign minister Hans die tric an encouraging signal for 1987." the Allied Protection Powers have shown How to Lake into account simultaneously the maintenance of inviolable Legal positions and pragmatically the common history and future of this divided City Genscher said. The chief of staff to Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl confirmed in a newspaper interview that the chief of the West Ger Man diplomatic Mission in East Berlin also would attend the concert. The Kohl aide Wolfgang Schaeuble was quoted by the newspaper die Welt As saying the envoy Hans Otto Braceti Gam bad consulted with the allies before deciding to attend. The ., British and French Allie who oversee Berlin s Western sector have been carefully monitoring East Ger Many s anniversary planning for signs of a threat to the postwar status of Berlin Asan Allied protected City. The Issue is diplomatically sensitive since under the postwar four Power treaty. East Berlin officially is merely the City the Western allies and West Germany neither recognize the soviet backed East German claim on East Berlin nor the City s do Facto division by the communist built Berlin Wall. But the Allied countries keep embassies in East be Linfor practical purposes. The four Power treaty guarantees Al lied Protection of West Berlin As an out Post of Western democracy surrounded by East German territory. West Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen has been invited to two East German slate ceremonies in connection with the anniversary later next year. He would Tike to go As a demonstration of East West Amity but has withheld a reply pending consultation with the allies Over whether such a trip might violate Berlin s treaty  told die Welt Braje Olgam would attend the Jan. 1 concert As a expression of our desire not to add More elements to the division of the City but he said the invitations to Diepgen raise concern about a Range of Benin status  meeting set to negotiate returning $500 million in Frozen assets to Iran the Hague Netherlands a . And iranian officials will meet Mon Day to negotiate on returning to Iran$500 million in Frozen assets mat figure in an iranian offer to intercede on behalf of american hostages in Lebanon. The officials agreed to continue bilateral talks on the iranian claim instead of turning it Over to the Iran-. Claim tribunal for arbitration. The tribunal made up of three Ameri cans three iranians and three people from other countries bad ruled that either nation could go to it for adjudication if no agreement were reached by dec. 20.the United states has agreed in Prin Ciple to return the funds which Are he Din escrow in. The new York Federal re serve Bank. But several meetings in thelast three months have failed to resolve outstanding  least five times in recent weeks Iran s parliament speaker Hashemi  Bis nation would intercede on behalf of american hostages in Lebanon if the United slates Unfrozen and delivered Irani an assets in the United  americans Are missing in Leb anon most of them believed held by shiite moslem extremists Loyal to Iran. But sources close to the arbitration panel noted the $500 million is Only part of billions of dollars in Frozen asset sought by Iran and they cautioned against linking Progress on the hostages to the meeting next week. From our Point of View we would assume that this is not going to solve a Sfanjani s problems this is not going to meet his conditions said a . State department source about the release of the $500 million. As we be assumed the iranian speaker in his general statement about unblocking our assets. Means More than just this. He Means All the properties that have been maintained in the United tales said the source. The tribunal was established by the1981 Algiers Accord that resulted in the freeing of 52 american hostages held for444 Days by islamic revolutionaries in Tehran Iran. Its function is to Settle financial claims Between the two nation resulting from the revolution and it i the Only Public forum in which the two nation have had direct Contact since breaking diplomatic relations after the 1979 hostage  $500 million has not yet been re leased because . Negotiators want Iran to provide a quitclaim releasing the Bank from any further responsibility forthe account there is no dispute Here said a american tribunal source about the escrow fund. Once the iranian Centra Bank has Given the new York fed the release it is expected that the Money willbe  this is not a problem agreed a iranian source at the tribunal who indicated he believed the return would renegotiated by the two parties without the need for tribunal  sources spoke on condition of Ano  assets currently held in the United states include the $500 million escrow account $300 million Worth of weapons stored in a Virginia warehouse and hundreds of millions of dollars More Worth of military equipment paid for by the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi but never delivered to the islamic fundamentalist government that succeeded him. The new York escrow account is the surplus with accrued interest from a $3.7 billion fund of Frozen Banian asset established to repay syndicated Loans made to  at the tribunal acknowledge the financial negotiations May insect the hostages. But both american and iranian representatives in the Hague nether lands deny the hostage question or any other diplomatic Issue Between the two nations comes up either of baby or unofficially within the tribunal  about 3,000 claims Worth a viral billion dollars before them the iranian negotiators for the most part have bed the suspicion and political Portuni that clouded the first Yean of negotiations according to the .  six years of operation about too cases Worth about $1 billion have Bee settled through the tribunal. Explosion 2 fires kill 5 in Germany Frank Jart a a Gas explosion in a Frankfurt apartment House Fri Day killed two people and injured seven while fires in two bavarian towns lulled three children two of them americans West German police said. A natural Gas tank that had been re paired recently blew up on the second floor of a four Story building in Frankfurt at 7 30a.m. Friday said a police spokesman who did not want his name used. The owner occupied apartment House where 19 people in eight families lived. Was declared uninhabitable after the blast. The explosion killed an 86-year-Oldnun and a 74-year-old woman both of whom were not identified in keeping with official practice. Two people were hospitalized m serious condition and five others were treated for Light injuries. Six residents were unaccounted for but officials said they apparently were away on vacation for the Christmas holi Day. Police were investigating the cause of the explosion and ensuing fire. In the bavarian town of Schweinfurt two american girls aged 8 and 13 died from injuries in a fire late thursday atan inn where their family was staying police  rescued the 30-Yearald father an american Soldier and Bis wife 30, from the burning third floor mom where the family had been staying said a Schweinfurt police spokesman. The couple was hospitalized in Tenor condition. The family was not identified and the cause of the Blaze was undetermined. Schweinfurt is about 62 Miles East of Frankfurt. Meanwhile in planting an 8-Monlh-old girl burned to death in an apartment Blaze late tuesday said police in the Southeastern bavarian Community located about 77 Miles East of  other people in the apartment were seriously injured and admitted to local hospitals