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4/21/06

The China Daily: Abbas calls freeze in EU aid 'unjustified'

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Abbas calls freeze in EU aid 'unjustified'

The European Union's freeze on direct aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian government is "unjustified," Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said in a newspaper interview published Friday. Abbas said he would explain his position during visits to Norway, Turkey and France next week, "so that the Palestinians are not penalized by the economic blockade. I believe that the stop in European aid is unjustified," he told Le Monde.

"If European countries do not want contacts with the Palestinian government, there are other means to maintain aid destined for the Palestinian people," including channeling funding through his office, "which would receive and redistribute it," said Abbas, who is due in Paris next Thursday and Friday.

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