Tuesday, March 25, 2008

EU Releases $463 Million In Aid To The Palestinians

(RTTNews) - The European Commission has released $463 million as part of an aid to the Palestinians to be spent for public infrastructure, economic programs and refugees.

The 27-nation bloc had promised to pay a total of $7.7 billion for budgetary support, development projects and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians at the Paris aid conference held in December.

"The European Union is committed to support the Palestinian Authority in its quest for improving the lives of Palestinian people towards a peace agreement with Israel," EU's External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said Tuesday.

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