{"id":162816,"date":"2018-08-31T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=162816"},"modified":"2018-09-11T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:11:03","slug":"on-us-assistance-to-unrwa-us-state-department-press-statement","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/on-us-assistance-to-unrwa-us-state-department-press-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"On US Assistance to UNRWA – US State Department Press Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a non-Â鶹APP document. The Â鶹APP provides these documents only as a convenience for reference purposes, and the inclusion of a document does not imply the endorsement of its content by the Â鶹APP.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Statement<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
Heather Nauert<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>
\nDepartment Spokesperson<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Washington, DC
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
August 31, 2018<\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n

The Administration has carefully reviewed the issue and determined that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNRWA. When we made a U.S. contribution of $60 million in January, we made it clear that the United States was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of UNRWA\u2019s costs that we had assumed for many years. Several countries, including Jordan, Egypt, Sweden, Qatar, and the UAE have shown leadership in addressing this problem, but the overall international response has not been sufficient.<\/p>\n

Beyond the budget gap itself and failure to mobilize adequate and appropriate burden sharing, the fundamental business model and fiscal practices that have marked UNRWA for years \u2013 tied to UNRWA\u2019s endlessly and exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries \u2013 is simply unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for many years. The United States will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation. We are very mindful of and deeply concerned regarding the impact upon innocent Palestinians, especially school children, of the failure of UNRWA and key members of the regional and international donor community to reform and reset the UNRWA way of doing business. These children are part of the future of the Middle East. Palestinians, wherever they live, deserve better than an endlessly crisis-driven service provision model. They deserve to be able to plan for the future.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, the United States will intensify dialogue with the Â鶹APP, host governments, and international stakeholders about new models and new approaches, which may include direct bilateral assistance from the United States and other partners, that can provide today\u2019s Palestinian children with a more durable and dependable path towards a brighter tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a non-Â鶹APP document. The Â鶹APP provides these documents only as a convenience for reference purposes, and the inclusion of a document does not imply the endorsement of its content by the Â鶹APP. Press Statement Heather Nauert\u00a0 Department Spokesperson Washington, DC August 31, 2018 The Administration has carefully reviewed the issue […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[2553],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[4798,1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1745],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-162816","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-united-states-of-america","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-state","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/162816","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\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/162816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=162816"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=162816"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=162816"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=162816"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=162816"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=162816"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=162816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}