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| Israel-Palestine |
| Arab League agrees to fund PA for next 6 months |
| 2004-03-27 |
| Arab foreign ministers agreed Saturday to provide Palestinians funding for the next six months to keep the Palestinian Authority operating, the Algerian foreign minister said. Eleven ministers from the 22-member Arab League met to try to work out the language of a statement that reflects how the summit will give a new push to the Arab peace initiative adopted at an Arab summit in Lebanon in 2002. The Palestinian ambassador, Mohammed Sobeih, told The Associated Press that US$50 million per month was needed in the next six months to fund the Palestinian Authority and pay for its employees. The foreign ministers sought Saturday to find a way to revive an Arab peace initiative to Israel and despite Syrian opposition because of the assassination of sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The statement was expected to be included in the final communique of the two-day Arab summit that begins Monday. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa gave no indication of progress when he met Saturday afternoon with reporters. The press conference was postponed for two hours because of what officials said was an unspecified "emergency meeting." However, Tunisian activists said the delay was to keep journalists away from a downtown demonstration by about 1,000 opposition and human rights groups demanding press freedoms in this country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 How many Paleo Authority employees does it take to change a light bulb? Three: One to beg the EU for $1M. One to beg the Arab League for $2M. One to complain to the UN that a zionist death ray has ruined their light bulb. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-03-27 11:12:58 PM |
| #6 Regarding the Virgins, are you supposed to keep them as such, and if so, what is the point? And if not, you get a week or so of jollies before they are all deflowered, and it is right back to your average ghetto ... bunch of naughty, perhaps even pregnant little misses ... Heaven? |
| Posted by: Beau 2004-03-28 2:09:13 AM |
| #5 The arab league will do anything, pay any price, to keep the paleshitians from coming to their countries. muslims are the lowest form of life on the planet. The most ignorant, gullible, stupid group of people too. How else can you explain their ability to convince young men that if you blow yourself up, you can spend eternity screwing 72 virgins in paradise? How important can their cause be, when they themselves won't blow themselves up for it? How stupid can someone be to fall for this bullshit??? arabs are also the world's biggest hypocrites. |
| Posted by: Texan 2004-03-27 11:43:00 PM |
| #4 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: mhw TROLL 2004-03-27 11:12:58 PM |
| #3 What exactly does an employee of the PA do? Bitch to the UN when the kickback money's late? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-03-27 9:27:31 PM |
| #2 I bet the Arabs demand higher "dead Joooo per $ donated" than the EU |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-03-27 9:06:45 PM |
| #1 That's fine, I suppose. Let Arabs pour their own money down the Philistine toilet. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2004-03-27 9:01:59 PM |