{"id":196586,"date":"2004-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=196586"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:14:26","slug":"auto-insert-196586","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-196586\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan contributes to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s Food Assistance Programme – ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Press Release No. HQ\/G\/05\/2004<\/p>\n

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Japan Contributes ¥ 500 million to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA's<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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The Government of Japan and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (±¬ÁÏÍøRWA) signed an agreement in Gaza today, under which the Government of Japan will contribute 500 million yen (around US$4.6 million) for ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s food assistance programme benefiting needy Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The agreement was signed by Japan’s Ambassador to Jordan Mr. Koichi Obata and ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA's Commissioner-General Mr. Peter Hansen, at a ceremony held at ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Headquarters in Gaza. Ambassador Obata is visiting the occupied Palestinian territories as chairperson of the Advisory Commission of ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Japanese Government's contribution to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA's food assistance programme will be used to purchase wheat flour for distribution by the Agency to needy refugee families registered with ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA as Special Hardship Cases, as well as in the Agency's nutritional support programme benefiting nursing mothers and pregnant women.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Japan, a major donor of cash and food assistance to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA, has also been a generous contributor to projects implemented by the Agency in the five fields of operations. The Japanese Government’s contributions to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s regular budget, food aid and projects over the last 10 years amounted to more than $220 million. <\/p><\/div>\n

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±¬ÁÏÍøRWA provides basic education, health, relief and social services for more than 4 million Palestine refugees registered with the Agency.<\/p><\/div>\n

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±¬ÁÏÍøRWA PRESS RELEASE Press Release No. HQ\/G\/05\/2004 01 March, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Japan Contributes ¥ 500 million to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA's Food Assistance Programme Gaza The Government of Japan and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (±¬ÁÏÍøRWA) signed an agreement in Gaza today, under which the Government of Japan will contribute 500 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[906],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2057,2153],"entity":[5343,1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-196586","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-japan","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-food","document-subject-refugee-camps","entity-palestine-plo-palestinian-authority","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/196586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/196586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=196586"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=196586"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=196586"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=196586"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=196586"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=196586"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=196586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}