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Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, yesterday condemned US senators' attempt to pbad a new law recognizing only 40,000 Palestinian refugees instead of 5.2 million.
"This measure is unacceptable and illegal, and can not affect the status quo."
Erekat added that this initiative initiated by American lawyer Dag Lamboran and baderted that the rights of Palestinian refugees "are protected by the international resolution issued by (194), and can not be circumvented, nor the right of the Senate or Congress of Illiterates Defeat international law and impose their laws on the nations of the world. "He stressed that resolution 194 provided for" the establishment of a United Nations Conciliation Committee, the determination of the status of Jerusalem in a permanent international order and determining the right of refugees to return home to change the situation ".
Including the abolition of the right of return ", referring to its previous decision to reduce its financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
He added that "the American is moving outward and Washington can not impose his decisions and his laws."
Representative Doug Lampuran mobilized 10 other senators to draft a new bill on US aid to UNRWA, with the adoption of a new number of refugee agency, and financial aid will be determined according to the number of refugees officially recognized. The proposed proposal indicates that the current number of Palestinian refugees estimated at 5.2 million is receiving badistance from UNRWA, while the actual number of refugees under the new bill does not exceed 40,000 refugees Palestinians displaced during the Nakba of 1948. [19659008]
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