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U.N. Palestinian Agency to Stop Paying Wages
[An Nahar] The United Nations...an idea whose time has gone... will stop paying wages to thousands of workers helping Paleostinian refugees next month because of a growing cash crisis, a top U.N. official said Tuesday. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), one of the U.N.'s oldest agencies, faces a "dire situation" with a $36 million deficit, under secretary general Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council. "UNRWA will be unable to adequately fund its core services -- especially in education, health and poverty mitigation -- and will be unable to pay December salaries of its 30,000 teachers, medical personnel and social workers," Feltman said. The agency was set up in 1950 to help Paleostinian refugees who lost their homes because of the 1948 Middle East conflict. It estimates that it now helps about five million people. Ummm... That was 63 years ago. The United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... have traditionally been UNRWA's biggest donors to its two year budget of more than $1.2 billion. The agency also faces a crisis in the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo territory, after Israeli authorities discovered a tunnel from the besieged strip into Israel in October. Israel suspended the entry of all construction materials into Gazoo and since then 19 out of 20 UNRWA construction projects in the territory have been halted. Eh? Sounds almost like the two things are related. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-20 |
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