EU overseas coverage chief Josep Borrell on Monday reiterated the bloc’s rejection of labeling the UN company for Palestinian refugees (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 stated at a joint press convention with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Brussels on the sidelines of the fifteenth assembly of the EU-Jordan Association Council.
He stated 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 stated.
There was no rapid 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 UN company and ceases all communications and relations between Israel and the company.
Israel has lobbying laborious to have UNRWA closed as it’s the solely UN company to have a particular mandate to take care of the fundamental wants of Palestinian refugees.
UNRWA was established by a UN 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.
Source: www.anews.com.tr