Posted on 05/09/2006 7:45:59 PM PDT by Sabramerican
Quartet to set up trust fund to meet PA salaries
NEW YORK - Members of the Quartet, which is meeting at the United Nations in New York, reached a "silent agreement" yesterday to establish a trust fund that will pay the salaries of Palestinian civil servants through the office of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
The initiative is meant to bypass the Hamas government and pay the salaries of 165,000 civil servants who have yet to receive payments since March. The decision stems from a realization by Quartet members that a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian Authority must be averted.
In parallel, the Quartet members - the United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union - reiterated the three demands posed to the Hamas government if any cooperation between the international community and the Palestinian government is to be resumed.
The demands are recognition of Israel, abandonment of terrorism, and acceptance of previous agreements signed between the Palestinians and Israel.
At their meeting, the Quartet members restated their commitment to the road map and its goal of a two-state solution.
Sources close to senior Quartet representatives told Haaretz that the initiative for the creation of the trust fund came from France. The fund will raise the necessary funds, and the World Bank will oversee its management and transfer of money for paying the salaries.
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan attended the start of yesterday's meeting, and suggested that civil servant salaries should be made via direct deposits into the workers' bank accounts.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Do you want $3 of your federal tax to go to the pay terrorist salaries?
The Quartet are honest brokers.
The Arabs are there just to make sure they remain honestly anti Israel.
This would never occur if there was a Republican in the White House.
To the Palestinian people: When ya lay down with dogs........
I despise the fact that one dime of MY money is going there. Hello? Anyone in government listening?
hmmm, soroses...as in, -- of the liver... (NOT a cheap shot).
Well…I knew it would be only a matter of time before some sort of back door excuse would be used to justify the resumption of financing the global Jihad against Israel, and also us and the entire West.
The initiative is meant to bypass the Hamas government and pay the salaries of 165,000 civil servants who have yet to receive payments since March."
Now we know what is wrong with Palestinians ...
Their entire Government is a WELFARE case!
No wonder the people have no sense of responsibility.
Because it was so secure before.
Go right ahead, the Saudis have plenty of oil money to send. They already send aid to the Palestinians, as do the Iranians, as did Saddam. Aid to help kill Jews, not aid for true humanitarian purposes.
Hey, why do so many Palestinian uncivil servants have numbered Swiss bank accounts?
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