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2019-08-18 International-UN-NGOs
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Palestinians fear UNRWA mandate may not be renewed
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[Jpost] The Paleostinian leadership is worried that the mandate of the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Relief and Works Agency for Paleostinian Refugees (UNRWA) may not be renewed this year due to charges of corruption in the agency.
The Paleostinians are also concerned about the recent decision of the Netherlands, Switzerland
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...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
and Belgium to temporarily suspend funding for UNRWA in the aftermath of allegations of graft and sexual misconduct among the its senior management.
PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat
...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state...
on Saturday called on UN Secretary-General António Guterres
 ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
to expedite the completion of the current investigation into suspicions and allegations of corruption in UNRWA before the opening of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 17. In the past year, UNRWA has fundraised at the opening session.
"An investigation is ongoing," and the UN Secretary-General is "committed to acting swiftly upon receiving the full report," UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told news hounds in New York two weeks ago.
Haq spoke in the aftermath of an al-Jazeera article, which said it had received a copy of a 10-page internal UNRWA report that allegedly fingered UNRWA commissioner-general Pierre Kranhenbuhl, deputy commissioner-general Sandra Mitchell, chief of staff Hakam Shahwan and senior adviser to the commissioner-general Maria Mohammedi, and called for their removal. Mitchell and Shahwan left UNRWA in July.
The report accused the UNRWA officials of nepotism and alleged they had created an atmosphere of fear, bullying and intimidation, indicating that the problems became more acute in 2018.
Erekat’s appeal reflects growing concern among Paleostinians that the corruption scandal may affect UNRWA’s services to Paleostinian refugees and pave the way for ending the agency’s mandate.
UNRWA was created in 1949 and its mandate is renewed every three years by the UN General Assembly, where it has enjoyed enormous support in the past.
In July, Haq told The Jerusalem Post that the mandate will be "debated and voted on by the Fourth Committee in November and then voted by the GA Plenary in December."
UNRWA services some 5.6 million Paleostinian refugees in the West Bank, Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, east Jerusalem, Leb, Jordan and Syria.
Erekat said in a statement that the "stability of UNRWA and its programs this year is more important in the period leading up to the meeting of the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee," also known as the Special Political and Decolonization Committee, which deals, among other things, with matters related to UNRWA.
Erekat expressed regret that US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s administration has "politicized the great work that UNRWA is doing in an effort to eradicate the issue of Paleostinian refugees."
Erekat pointed out that after the Trump administration’s decision to halt funding to UNRWA, "more than 40 UN member states have made additional pledges, which means that they recognize the importance of services provided by UNRWA and its important role in maintaining regional stability."
Last year, the Trump administration announced that it was ending all funding to UNRWA, describing the agency as "irredeemably flawed." In 2017 the US was the largest donor to UNRWA, providing it with some $350 million.
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