{"id":249494,"date":"2021-04-14T18:57:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=249494"},"modified":"2021-04-15T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:58:17","slug":"amount-of-us-support-to-unrwa-14-april-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/amount-of-us-support-to-unrwa-14-april-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Amount of US Support to UNRWA \u2013 14 April 2021 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>14 APRIL 2021<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 On Palestine and UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees), so, last week \u2014 and you talked about it \u2014 the US donated $150\u00a0million, I think, if I\u2019m not mistaken.\u00a0 How disappointed are you, actually, given the fact this number is not even\u2026 it\u2019s almost half of the\u2026 what they were giving before they stopped and given the fact, also, that the US aid to Israel is $3.6\u00a0billion, and it doesn\u2019t go actually to the poor people in Israel.\u00a0 It\u2019s mostly military aid.\u00a0 So, can you\u2026<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 The history of bilateral aid between the US and Israel is\u2026 has been clear for a long time.\u00a0 Our focus is on what we can get for UNRWA.\u00a0 We\u2019re grateful for this\u2026 I think, this return of the United States to UNRWA and a very vocal return.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, as with any donors, we\u2019re happy when we get money.\u00a0 We\u2019d be happier if we got more money.\u00a0 I mean, that\u2019s a fact.\u00a0 But we very much hope that the US decision will also move other donors who had left when the US left to return and return with generosity.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information media. 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