Pakistan enhances its contribution to UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has enhanced its contribution to the UN agency entrusted to assist Palestinian refugees, reads a press release.

Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to United Nations Maleeha Lodhi handed over the enhanced contribution to Director UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Peter Mulrean in New York.

UNRWA ran into deep financial trouble earlier this year when the United States cut back its funding of the Agency by around 300 million dollars.

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Speaking on the occasion, Maleeha Lodhi said the people of Pakistan had always stood with their Palestinian brothers and sisters.

She said this assistance would help the UN agency to continue its relief efforts and keep the schools and clinics open for Palestinian refugee.

In a video message on the occasion, the UNRWA’s Commissioner General Krahenbuhl appreciated Pakistan’s support for the Palestinian refugees.

In a statement last month, Maleeha Lodhi has called for a diplomatic solution of Palestine issue and added that it is the time to end the tragedy.

She urged the UN Security Council to pursue, on an urgent basis, diplomatic solutions to the Palestine issue.

She said, “As international efforts to bring an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people have faltered, the burning cauldron of anger and pervasive sense of injustice have inescapably sowed the seeds of animosity and violence in the entire region, fueling instability and intensifying insecurity across the Middle East.”