{"id":206289,"date":"2004-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=206289"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:08:59","slug":"auto-insert-206289","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-206289\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia contributes US$6 million to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s programmes – ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Press Release No. J\/4\/2004<\/p>\n

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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Contributes US$6 million to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s programmes<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Amman – The Government of Saudi Arabia has made to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (±¬ÁÏÍøRWA) an additional contribution of US$ 6 million to support the Agency’s programmes in the occupied<\/p><\/div>\n

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A memorandum of understanding for this contribution was signed today at ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Headquarters in Amman by His Excellency the Vice-Chairman, Managing Director of the Saudi Fund for Development, Engineer Yousef Al-Bassam and ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s Commissioner-General Mr. Peter Hansen.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The contribution will be used to fund the Palestine Refugees Registration Record Project and other education, health and housing projects in refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza strip.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Earlier this year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia paid to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA US$ 1.8 million for the Agency's regular budget for 2004. The amount represented a regular contribution of US$ 1.2 million and US$ 600.000 being the last payment of a US$ 2.4 million additional contribution announced by Saudi Arabia in 2000 to be paid to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA over a period of four years.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Since 1994, Saudi Arabia has contributed generously to Agency projects, particularly under the Saudi Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People under which ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA received US$ 38 million in funding for projects implemented by the Agency in the Palestinian areas. These projects included the construction of a school of nursing in Gaza, the construction, upgrading and equipping of 37 schools and 9 health centres, as well as the repair and expansion of more than 800 shelters in various refugee camps.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In remarks he made at the signing ceremony, Mr. Peter Hansen expressed his deepest appreciation of the continued generous support provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA, on behalf of more than four million Palestine refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.<\/p><\/div>\n

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±¬ÁÏÍøRWA PRESS RELEASE Press Release No. J\/4\/2004 10 October 2004 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Contributes US$6 million to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA’s programmes in the West Bank and Gaza Amman – The Government of Saudi Arabia has made to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (±¬ÁÏÍøRWA) an additional contribution of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[1098],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1749,1745],"entity":[5343,1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-206289","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-saudi-arabia","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-palestine-question","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","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\/206289","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\/206289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=206289"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=206289"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=206289"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=206289"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=206289"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=206289"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=206289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}