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Fayyad Puts Palestinian Donor Meeting in Doubt

(Financial Times-UK) A conference of international donors to the Palestinian Authority, due to meet in Rome on November 19, was thrown into doubt Thursday after Salam Fayyad, the PA's widely respected finance minister, said he would not participate in the present caretaker government. Fayyad was to have used the occasion to ask the international community for $1.2bn in aid for 2004. Diplomats and aid officials said that even Fayyad's temporary absence would be a blow to efforts to retain the PA's credibility with its largest donors. Donors had still to meet commitments for 2003. Diplomats say the reluctance of donors to come forward with funds partly reflected concern at the apparent state of political chaos within the PA. The PA relies on foreign assistance to pay salaries that support much of the 3.3m population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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