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2020-06-25 International-UN-NGOs

International donors pledge $130 million to UNRWA

[IsraelTimes] International donors pledge over $130 million to the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
agency helping Paleostinian refugees, an amount the organization’s head says is encouraging but not enough to keep operations running through the end of the year.

The UN Relief and Works Agency has faced a financial crisis since the United States pulled all funding in 2018, leaving the organization with a massive budgetary shortfall.

Agency Director-General Philippe Lazzarini tells news hounds following a virtual fundraising conference that despite the "very strong expression of support" by international donors "we are still in the dark and we do not know if our operations will run until the end of the year."

Words are easy. Actually paying for promises made was never part of the agreement.

He says the donations cover only a fraction of the roughly $400 million budget gap the agency is facing.

Golly. That sounds like an awful lot of money. How awful.

Lazzarini says there was no intention at this time to cut any of UNRWA’s core services, but "in reality, there is nothing left to cut without impacting the scope and the quality of the services."

Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 there is nothing left to cut

Maybe the payments to terrorists and prisoners will help.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-25 06:12|| 2020-06-25 06:12|| Front Page Top

#2 cut tunnel building?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-25 06:29|| 2020-06-25 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Paleostinian 'refugees' are another problem that is too lucrative to not solve. Gotta keep that cash flowing.

Even the jews wandered the desert for less time than the Paleostinians have been 'refugees'

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-06-25 07:34|| 2020-06-25 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4 without impacting the scope and the quality of the ~~services~~ graft."

FIFY

Posted by AlanC 2020-06-25 07:49|| 2020-06-25 07:49|| Front Page Top

#5 "Pledge"

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-25 07:56|| 2020-06-25 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 What P2k said - maybe half of that money actually gets paid. An actual list of potential donors might indicate an even lower level of compliance / adherence to this pledge.

Posted by Raj 2020-06-25 11:13|| 2020-06-25 11:13|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ "Pledge"... What Raj and P2K said. Maybe half will be spent only *If* the money is earmarked for goods/services from the donor country --- so, basically money laundering donations to the "donor" country's own businesses.

Posted by magpie 2020-06-25 13:01|| 2020-06-25 13:01|| Front Page Top

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