Delegates of members of the Middle East Quartet Committee met on
Sunday in Jordan's capital Amman over aid to a Hamas-led
Palestinian government.
Delegates of the United States, the United Nations, the European
Union and Russia, members of the Quartet Committee, would discuss
ways to deliver aid to the Palestinian people after a Hamas-led
Palestinian government took office on March 29.
The one-day meeting comes amid the Hamas-led government is
facing Western pressure to cut off financial aid to the newly
installed government after Hamas rejected to recognize Israel,
renounce violence and honor previous agreements. The Quartet
Committee has been a long time mediator over the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The Quartet has said that there would be an inevitable effect on
direct aid to the Palestinian government if Hamas, which is
committed to Israel's destruction, did not meet the political
conditions.
The Palestinians have been largely dependent on financial aid
from the West.
(Xinhua News Agency April 3, 2006)
