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Chirac calls for fund to aid Palestinians
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Friday 28 April 2006 10:38 AM GMT
The EU is the largest donor to the Palestinians
France has called for the creation of a World Bank fund to pay the
salaries of Palestinian officials.
Jacques Chirac, the French president, proposed it on Friday before he
met with Mahmoud Abbas, his Palestinian counterpart in Paris.
Jerome Bonnafont, Chirac's spokesman said France will raise the issue
during talks on May 9 with the United Nations, the United States, the
European Union and Russia - the four key international players behind
the stalled "road map" peace plan.
France and other European Union nations earlier this month cut off
direct aid to the Palestinian government after Hamas's election
victory. The European Union is the largest donor to the Palestinians,
with aid totaling more than $600 million a year.
Because of international sanctions, the Hamas-led government has been
unable to pay salaries to 165,000 Palestinian government employees.
Humanitarian aid
France believes aid "must be maintained for humanitarian reasons, as
well as for political reasons," Chirac said. "And it will push for
this continuance (of aid) within the international community and
notably within the European Union."
"The situation is very grave, complex and sensitive."
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president
Abbas confirmed at a later news conference that the World Bank
channel was among those discussed with Chirac to get aid to the
Palestinian people.
"If we do not reach a solution, it will be catastrophic," he
said. "The situation is very grave, complex and sensitive."
Chirac said humanitarian aid must be maintained and enlarged "in
particularly through the agencies of the United Nations," his
spokesman said. He said aid must channel through institutions
independent of the Palestinian government.
The French leader also suggested that more aid could be placed under
the authority of Abbas, a moderate, his spokesman said.
Chirac asked Hamas to respect the demands of the international
community: to renounce violence and recognise Israel's right to
exist. The group has refused to temper its radical views.
Abbas, whose Fatah Party was defeated by Hamas in January's
legislative elections, has worked to try to keep the West from
shunning the Palestinians over the militant group's violently anti-
Israel ideology.
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