The high EU diplomat reiterated the bloc’s opposition to labeling the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees within the Near East (UNRWA) as a “terrorist organization.”
“We reject any attempts to label UNRWA as a ‘terrorist organization’. How can a United Nations agency be considered a terrorist organization?” Borrell mentioned at a joint news convention with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Brussels on the sidelines of the fifteenth assembly of the EU-Jordan Association Council.
He mentioned the EU together with different worldwide donors will proceed to help and fund UNRWA.
“We agreed that it is critical to preserve UNRWA’s irreplaceable role throughout the region, certainly including in Jordan,” Borrell mentioned.
There was no fast Israeli touch upon Borrell’s statements.
Late in May, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) handed a preliminary movement to approve a invoice designating UNRWA as a “terrorist organization.”
The invoice additionally mandates that the Israeli “Anti-Terrorism Law” be utilized to the U.N. company and ceases all communications and relations between Israel and the company.
Israel has been lobbying arduous to have UNRWA closed as it’s the solely U.N. company to have a selected mandate to take care of the fundamental wants of Palestinian refugees.
UNRWA was established by a U.N. decision in 1949 and is remitted to offer help and safety to refugees in its 5 areas of operation: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
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