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'London properties registered to King were purchased in 1948'
AMMAN -- Jordan's Ambassador to UK Mazen Hmoud on Saturday said the two pieces of London real estate mentioned recently in a UK newspaper have been part of the Jordanian military attaché's office in the British capital since 1948.The ambassador's statement came in response to a news item published in the Daily Telegraph on Friday, regarding a lawsuit filed by His Majesty King Abdullah on behalf of the Jordanian government to appropriate these pieces of real estate on a permanent basis to become state property, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
On Friday, the British newspaper reported that the Monarch was suing the trustees of a London estate for allegedly refusing to honour a "gentlemen's agreement" made in 1996 regarding the leaseholds of two houses in Kensington, which he had purchased a year earlier.
In a statement published on Petra, the ambassador said the two pieces of real estate, which are not houses as the Telegraph said, were purchased in 1948 for a limited term on a renewable basis and registered in the name of the King of Jordan as head of state and not in his personal capacity, reiterating that the two pieces are part of the Kingdom's property.
Noting that the Jordanian government has been working to achieve this goal since the mid-1990s, Hmoud said the step seeks to avoid a repurchase agreement at a very high price after the end of the current agreement in 2064.
In response to a request from the ambassador, the newspaper said it will publish a clarification explaining that the two pieces of real estate are the property of the Jordanian state, according to Petra.
In the Telegraph story the writer said: "A spokesperson for King Abdullah assures me that the houses belong to him not personally, but in his capacity as head of state and remain the property of the state of Jordan."
Former minister of justice Jamal Nasser is the lawyer entrusted by the Jordanian government to represent it in such cases in the UK and he has been appointed in this case by the Jordan Armed Forces, the ambassador added.
© Jordan Times 2012
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