Jordan to host fundraiser at UN for Palestinian refugee agency

30 August 2018, 6:28 pm

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Jordan will host a fundraiser at the United Nations headquarters in New York next month to keep the agency for Palestinian refugees afloat, the kingdom’s top diplomat says.

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi says the meeting, set for September 27 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, “aims to provide financial and political support to UNRWA.”

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has been struggling to balance its books since the United States announced in January it was cutting its annual funding by $300 million.

The Jordanian foreign minister says the New York event will “reaffirm that UNRWA is an organization created by the UN General Assembly, with a clear and particular role, and this role must continue.”