Jakarta –
Minister of Development Sweden Johan Forssell said his country had temporarily stopped development aid to the region Palestine. Minister of Foreign Affairs (Menlu) German consider the action wrong.
As reported AlgeriaWednesday (11/10/2023), the Swedish government said it had given the task to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to review aid to Palestine and report on it in early December.
European Union foreign ministers met on Tuesday to discuss divisions among the EU’s 27 members over whether to resume aid payments to the Palestinians a day after the European Commission walked back an announcement suspending all aid.
Sweden’s neighbor, Denmark, previously announced that it would stop aid. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said ending humanitarian aid was ‘wrong’.
Germany’s foreign minister said ending humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territories was ‘completely wrong’. Before a meeting of European Union foreign ministers to discuss whether to maintain aid payments to the Palestinians amid the conflict, Annalena Baerbock said that “at this time it would be wrong to stop vital humanitarian aid to the civilian population.”
“Millions of people, including many children, in the Palestinian territories, depend on us for food, water and medicine,” he added.
Baerbock’s remarks came after Commission official Oliver Varhelyi said on Monday that EU aid would be stopped.
But Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg and Ireland quickly raised concerns over the decision which led the Commission to announce humanitarian aid to Palestine would continue.
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2023-10-10 18:32:52
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