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| PA urges donor countries to pay up |
| 2012-03-22 |
| These guys are becoming incompetent. Maybe they should hire Tony Soprano as an advisory consultant. Tony never seemed to have much trouble getting his "donors" to pay up. Palestinian Authority PM Salam Fayyad says donations necessary to help $1 billion PA fiscal deficit; Norwegian FM says Israel should transfer PA tax revenue. The Palestinian Authority Thursday hailed as "important" a decision by the international donors to provide financial aid to the Palestinians, but urged the countries to channel the promised funds immediately. Representatives of international donors met in Brussels Wednesday to discuss the financial crisis in the PA. At the end of the meeting, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere urged the donors to ensure the contribution of $1 billion in assistance [to the PA] in 2012. He also urged Israel to facilitate the transfer of tax revenues belonging to the PA. The donor's "Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee on Palestine" said after the meeting in Brussels that the global economic slowdown has created a $1 billion deficit in the PA's budget. It noted that at the beginning of this year the PA has "experienced a severe fiscal crisis, which threatens to become protracted given the recent and projected declines in donor assistance" and the situation could soon be "totally unmanageable." The committee appealed to Israel to "ensure monthly transfers to the PA in a predictable manner." PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad described the donor countries' decision as important, but stressed the need to transfer the promised funds quickly to help the PA government overcome the severe financial crisis. Fayyad said that it was also important that Arab countries fulfill their financial obligations toward the Palestinians. Fayyad denied that the donors had conditioned continued financial aid to the Palestinians on their abandoning efforts to unilaterally achieve UN recognition of a Palestinian state. Fayyad, who attended the meeting in Brussels, complained that Israel was preventing the PA from carrying out a development plan in Area C of the West Bank which is under exclusive Israeli control and which constitutes nearly 60% of the land. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 until they can't afford rockets and bombs? F*ck em |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-03-22 20:47 |
| #2 Deduct 15% for every rocket? |
| Posted by: tipover 2012-03-22 20:30 |
| #1 Ya know, I'm looking and I don't see those magic words "please" and "thank you" anywhere in there. I say we let 'em wait until they learn some manners... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-03-22 18:53 |