{"id":98463,"date":"2022-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/13188\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:00:00","slug":"13188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/13188","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Foreign Ministry: UNRWA Services Contribute to Regional Stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">On Tuesday, 7 June, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, concluded a two-day visit to Ankara, T&uuml;rkiye. During the visit he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of T&uuml;rkiye, Mevl&uuml;t &Ccedil;avu\u00c5\u0178o\u00c4\u0178lu, and senior representatives from Turkish aid institutions and Turkish parliamentarians to raise awareness of the current challenges facing Palestine refugees and discuss expanding UNRWA- T&uuml;rkiye relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Minister of Foreign Affairs &Ccedil;avu\u00c5\u0178o\u00c4\u0178lu said, \u201cThe essential services provided by the Agency contribute to the stability and security of the region. Our political and financial support to UNRWA will continue.\u201d\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">The Commissioner-General meeting discussions focused on the deteriorating situation and increasing needs of Palestine refugees, including the impact of the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis, particularly on the cost of UNRWA delivery of emergency food assistance in Gaza, and ways in which the robust cooperation and partnership with T&uuml;rkiye can be further strengthened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">\u201cT&uuml;rkiye&#8217;s generosity and unwavering political and financial support has once again helped to ensure the continued delivery of UNRWA services to Palestine refugees at a time of increasing needs and rising costs. I remain deeply appreciative of the Government of T&uuml;rkiye for their continued efforts and look forward to further developing our important partnership to the benefit of Palestine refugees served by the Agency,\u201dsaid UNRWA Commissioner-General Lazzarini.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">The Government of T&uuml;rkiye has been a steadfast partner to UNRWA and since 1949 has played a critical role in supporting the Agency. T&uuml;rkiye&#8217;s support in multilateral platforms, including the UN, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Organization of Turkic States, as well as its direct financial contributions to UNRWA, are highly appreciated. Over the last four years, T&uuml;rkiye has made annual contributions in the amount of US$ 10 million in support of the Agency&#8217;s core budget and in 2021 made an in-kind donation worth US$ 10.3 million for Palestine refugees in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 7 June, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, concluded a two-day visit to Ankara, T&uuml;rkiye. During the visit he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of T&uuml;rkiye, Mevl&uuml;t &Ccedil;avu\u00c5\u0178o\u00c4\u0178lu, and senior representatives from Turkish aid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}