MaximsNewsNetwork: UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES (UNRWA)

MaximsNewsNetwork: 18 September 2009 - UNRWA: Karen Koning AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) tells reporters that her agency might be facing problems in paying the salaries of the twenty nine thousand staff who carry out all the human developments activities."

Karen Koning AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) told reporters today (18 September) at the United Nations, while launching a report on the sixty years of UNRWA, that her agency was facing problems in paying the salaries of the twenty nine thousand staff who carry out all UNRWAs human development actions.

AbuZayd said the funding problems were more serious this year perhaps than ever, mainly because it was affecting the general funding of the basic programs that UNRWA carries out in basic primary education, primary health care, social services and micro-finance programs for refugees.

She said that the target budget for the rest of the year was about seventy million dollars, and that around thirty-two million dollars were spent in running costs, and most of that was staff salaries.

Commenting on the report presented by Judge Richard Goldstone on Tuesday on the recent Gaza conflict, AbuZayd said that she was glad that the finding concluded that there were no militants in the UNRWA schools, as we had certainly been saying all along. She added that her agency was waiting for the report to be officially presented at the Human Rights Council.

The head of UNRWA also said she was a little more hopeful this year about the future of Palestinian refugees because of the stronger lead the United States administration had taken to approach the Palestinian-Israeli issue.


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