Parliament Speaker: support and expand development aid to the PA … – Onet.pl

 
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  Grzegorz Schetyna
 
 
 

Schetyna after visiting an orphanage run by Polish sisters of St. Elizabeth, he said in an interview with Polish journalists expanding aid package to the Palestinian Authority. “We will support and expand upon it” – he declared. In the assessment of development assistance Schetyna is a modern dimension of solidarity.

The projects in development aid Poland allocated last year total of more than 2 million zł. According to the representative of the Republic of Poland in the Palestinian Alexandra McCabe Bukowska projects are carried out in three areas: education, access to water and job creation; their implementation is carried out in cooperation with local NGOs. – This assistance directly changes the lives of people here, on the spot – she pointed out.

Foreign Minister also visited a serviced m .in. Polish resources Basilica of the Nativity. Palestinian Minister. Christians Ziad Bandak told reporters that Poland is one of the nine founders, who finance the renovation. With Polish Money is financed renovation of the door to the basilica, they were allocated to over 50 thousand. dollars.

Parliament Speaker during his visit also visited the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, where he lives close 6 thousand. The Palestinians.

Foreign Minister started his visit with a meeting of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah – Palestinian formal capital – with Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Hamdallahem Rami, who asked for a transfer to partners in Israel that the Palestinian side is ready to negotiate and further efforts to resolve the conflict.

Both politicians summed up the Polish-Palestinian relations within the ten-Polish presence in the Palestinian Authority. In Ramallah operates Polish Representation to the Palestinian National Authority.

During a conversation recorded an increasing number of tourists from Polish visitors Palestinian territories. The foreign minister also spoke with Palestinian Tourism Minister Rula Ma’ayah to – as he told reporters – Polish pilgrims feel even more comfortable. According to him annually to the Palestinian Authority arrived there more than 120 thousand. tourists.

Schetyna also announced that it will talk with the foreign ministers of France and Germany on a joint initiative of the Weimar Triangle ws. Palestinian-Israeli relations. According to him, this could help in returning to negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

– We want to get involved . We have our good experience with the history of Franco-German and Polish-German – Parliament Speaker stressed. – We are committed to this and we believe that it is possible for us to share these good experiences here, in Palestine and Israel – he said announcing that he will also talk about it with Israeli policies. Parliament Speaker has to meet, among others, with the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bejamin Netanyahu.

– This is the first visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for six years – important, because after the elections – in Israel. But intentionally start it in Palestine – Schetyna said.

(RZ)