{"id":11559,"date":"2011-04-18T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2011-04-14T01:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T00:56:00","slug":"palestinian-pm-hails-un-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/04\/palestinian-pm-hails-un-birth-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian PM Hails UN ‘Birth Certificate’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salam Fayyad says UN report and talks in Brussels “effectively recognise the reality of a state in Palestine”.<\/em><\/p>\n

Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, has said that a United Nations endorsement of his administration’s readiness to govern amounts to “a birth certificate” for Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n

Fayyad’s comments on Wednesday [13 Apr 2011] came as diplomats and donors met in Brussels to discuss Palestinian state-building efforts and follow a UN report that assessed the Palestinian Authority as “sufficient for a functioning government of a state”.<\/p>\n

That assessment by the UN, World Bank and International Monetary Fund was backed by donors at the Brussels meeting.<\/p>\n

Fayyad said that the talks in Brussels amounted to “a landmark event” after participants “effectively recognised the reality of a state of Palestine”.<\/p>\n

Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been on hold since late 2010 over Jewish settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister, speaking for the Middle East Quartet at the Brussels meeting, said that “credible political negotiations” were needed on a “very urgent” basis to “revive the political process”.<\/p>\n

Palestinian efforts to win recognition for a Palestinian state have continued separately to peace talks.<\/p>\n

Fayyad has said he expects the Palestinian Authority to be ready for statehood by September, when Palestinian officials have said they may seek UN General Assembly recognition.<\/p>\n

At the Brussels meeting, the Palestinian Authority submitted to donors a three-year plan for Palestinian state-building, seeking about $5bn of foreign aid to build state institutions.<\/p>\n

“The next three years will witness a transformation in the nature of external aid from ‘life support’ to real investment in the future of Palestine,” the report said.<\/p>\n

EU trade deal<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the latest sign of slowly growing support for a Palestinian state, the European Union granted duty-free access to farming and fishing goods from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as part of the talks.<\/p>\n

Excluded from that agreement is a “specific duty for imports of fruit and vegetables” which the EU maintained to ensure Palestinian exporters could not severely undercut European growers.<\/p>\n

Catherine Ashton, the chief EU diplomat, signed the deal for the Europeans.<\/p>\n

Participants, including Russia and the US, also backed observer status for the Palestinian Authority at the World Trade Organisation.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Authority is one of the EU’s smallest trading partners worldwide, with imports equivalent to just $8.8m in 2009.<\/p>\n

Irit Ben-Abba, an Israeli economic affairs ministry official, said progress on governance was mainly down to Israeli customs and treasury action, and said Palestinian exporters already benefited from free-trade deals negotiated by Israel.<\/p>\n

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Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, has said that a United Nations endorsement of his administration’s readiness to govern amounts to “a birth certificate” for Palestinian statehood. Fayyad’s comments on Wednesday [13 Apr 2011] came as diplomats and donors met in Brussels to discuss Palestinian state-building efforts and follow a UN report that assessed the Palestinian Authority as “sufficient for a functioning government of a state”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}