February 2, 2010
The Palestinian Authority has issued a 2010 budget document laying out a state-building plan. ‘Palestine: Moving Forward: Priority Interventions for 2010,’ issued [last] week by the Palestinian Authority finance and planning ministries, is a Palestinian state and institution building program that complements the diplomatic process the Obama administration is trying to revive, the American Task Force for Palestine’s Hussein Ibish told POLITICO.
“It provides a parallel, complimentary, bottom-up track to the top-down diplomatic process, will bolster leaders and constituencies that want to achieve a peace agreement, and is an alternative source of political momentum when diplomacy is gridlocked,” Ibish said.
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