美駐UN大使猛批阿拉伯和穆斯林國家

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has blasted Arab and Muslim states for their rhetoric on the Palestinian situation and for not taking more concrete action to alleviate humanitarian suffering and supporting the peace process.

Haley told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that “talk is cheap, calling out many countries, including U.S. allies Kuwait, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, for their lack of or small contributions to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA.

"So the next time we have a meeting like this in the Security Council or the General Assembly and we hear speech after speech about the plight of the Palestinian people I would ask those who are making the speeches to examine what your country is doing to help other than speech making."

Last year,the United States gave $364 million to help Palestinians, but Haley failed to add that in January the Trump administration slashed its 2018 funding by $300 million, leaving UNRWA in an uNPRecedented financial crisis.

Since then, the agency has held two emergency pledging conferences and raised $238 million, but still faces a $217 million shortfall and has warned that it may have to delay the start of the September school year. UNRWA schools educate more than half-a-million children in the Palestinian territories and across the region.美國常駐聯合國代表妮基·黑利大使指責阿拉伯和穆斯林國家有關巴勒斯坦局勢的講話，以及這些國家沒有爲緩和人道困境和支持和平進程做出具體行動。

黑利星期二在聯合國安理會上說，不要停留在口頭，她指出很多國家包括美國的盟友科威特、土耳其以及阿聯酋等國都沒有或是很少資助聯合國援助巴勒斯坦難民的機構“聯合國近東救濟工程”(UNRWA)。

她說： “下次我們開會，不論是安理會還是聯合國大會，如果我們再聽到對巴勒斯坦人困境一個接一個的發言，我就會要求發言者審查一下，你們國家除了發言以外，有哪些實際行動。”

去年，美國援助巴勒斯坦人3.64億美元，但黑利沒有說，今年1月川普政府將2018年的援款削減了3億美元，使聯合國援助巴勒斯坦人的機構面臨前所未有的財政危機。

今年1月以來，這個機構舉行了兩次緊急籌款會議，籌得資金2.38億美元，但仍有2.17億資金缺口, 該機構警告說，今年9月的學年可能不得不推遲開學。聯合國巴勒斯坦難民援助機構開辦的學校在巴勒斯坦領土和中東地區負責50多萬巴勒斯坦兒童的教育。