SINGAPORE: Singapore will increase its technical assistance to the Palestinian
National Authority (PNA), with an enhanced package worth S$5 million over five
years.
Senior Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs, Mr Masagos Zulkifli, announced this at the
inaugural Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian
Development (CEAPAD) in Tokyo on Thursday.
Mr Masagos said the new
assistance package will include training courses and study visits, as well as
post-graduate scholarships that are customised to meet the specific needs of
the PNA.
He said this demonstrates
Singapore's continued commitment to support Palestinian capacity-building
efforts.
He hopes the PNA will find this
new technical assistance package useful and constructive.
Mr Masagos said Singapore will
continue to support all international efforts to facilitate a negotiated
solution that will be in the long-term interests of Palestine, Israel and the
region as a whole.
It will also continue to provide
technical assistance to Palestine in areas most relevant and impactful to its
development.
Mr Masagos also called on Prime
Minister of the PNA, Dr Salam Fayyad, on Wednesday.
Dr Fayyad thanked Mr Masagos for
Singapore's participation.
The leaders agreed that both
sides faced some similar developmental challenges, given their small size and
limited natural resources.
Dr Fayyad said that there are
lessons that Palestine can learn from Singapore's development experience.
The PNA, he said, is particularly
interested in developing its education sector.
Singapore had offered a
million-dollar technical assistance package for Palestine at the Paris Donors
Conference in 2007.
Under this package, Palestinian
officials have visited Singapore for training in areas such as public financial
management, e-government and integrated land use planning.
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