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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Israel to withhold $2m in UN dues to protest UNHRC resolutions
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructs the Foreign Ministry to withhold $2 million (NIS 7.24 million) from its annual United Nations dues in protest of the UN Human Rights Council’s recent adoption of 5 resolutions critical of Israel.
A statement from the Foreign Ministry says the funds will instead go to Mashav, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, and will be invested in developing countries who support Israel in international bodies.
The ministry says the move seeks to “correct the obsessive discrimination against Israel at the UN and its agencies.”
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