Safadi, Lazzarini talk efforts to provide financial support to UNRWA

Safadi, Lazzarini talk efforts to provide financial support to UNRWA

Ammon News -  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, and Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philip Lazzarini, discussed on Thursday, joint efforts to provide the necessary financial support to plug the agency's financial deficit to maintain providing its vital services to refugees according to its UN mandate.During their meeting, Safadi and Lazarini reviewed the results of intensive and continuous consultations with international partners to address the agency's financial crisis, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, and prevent the financial crisis's fallout on the agency's programs, institutions and employees.Safadi and Lazarini reviewed the current efforts to prepare for the international conference on UNRWA, which Jordan and the Kingdom of Sweden are working to hold this year, aimed at strengthening the commitment of the international community to the agency and drumming up political and financial support for it.Safadi warned of the consequences of the lack of the necessary financial support to enable the agency continue providing its vital services to Palestinian refugees in its five areas of operations.The FM stressed the need for UNRWA to continue providing its services according to its UN mandate until a