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Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
Palestinians receive Saudi cash boost |
2008-08-25 |
![]() Malki said the money was part of pledges made to the Palestinian Authority at a donors conference in Paris in December and expected the transfer to arrive in the coming days. Fayyad has struggled in recent months to pay government workers because many Arab donors have not met their financial commitments. Earlier in the week, the European Union said it will inject 40 million euros ($59 million) of funds on top of the 256 million euros in budget support disbursed so far this year by the European Union. At the Paris conference, donors pledges $7.7 billion in aid to the Palestinians over three years. But only a fraction of that has materialized and most of it is earmarked for projects and not general spending. Fayyad wants more allocations to budget support. Delays in paying salaries would be embarrassing for Fayyad, who was appointed last year with Western backing when President Mahmoud Abbas fired a Hamas government after the Islamists violently took over Gaza Strip after routing his forces there. |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 Lots of promises, possibly even some actual money that will be siphoned off for private bank accounts and slightly less private armies, to continue the internal fighting. Goodie. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2008-08-25 08:22 |