Published : 04-02-2021
Leni Stenseth of Norway, Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), warned that the Agency is forced to reduce 10% of its budget for 2021 due to decreasing funds and the coronavirus pandemic.
In the webinar, representatives of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt expressed their firm rebuff of the Agency’s budget cut, which they said would seriously affect the Palestinian refugee communities across UNRWA’s fields of operations.
The host countries called on the United Nations to increase its funding to UNRWA in order to help it maintain its vital services for nearly 6 million Palestinian refugees registered with the Agency.
Leni Stenseth of Norway, Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), warned that the Agency is forced to reduce 10% of its budget for 2021 due to decreasing funds and the coronavirus pandemic.
In the webinar, representatives of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt expressed their firm rebuff of the Agency’s budget cut, which they said would seriously affect the Palestinian refugee communities across UNRWA’s fields of operations.
The host countries called on the United Nations to increase its funding to UNRWA in order to help it maintain its vital services for nearly 6 million Palestinian refugees registered with the Agency.
