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:: United Nations
Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People
Amman, 19 and 20
February 2008The
Seminar was held under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. By organizing this event, the
Committee wished to build on the positive momentum created by the Annapolis
Conference and the Paris Donors’ Conference and support all efforts to mobilize
international assistance to the Palestinian people. The Seminar provided
an opportunity to assess the scope of the socio-economic and humanitarian
emergency in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; discussed the United Nations,
international and regional response to the needs of the Palestinian people; and
exchanged views on the immediate and longer-term steps that needed to be taken on
the road to Palestinian economic recovery. Invited to the Seminar were
internationally renowned experts, including Israelis and Palestinians, as well
as representatives of United Nations Members and Observers, intergovernmental
organizations, the United Nations system, civil society and the media.
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