No progress in easing financial crisis: minister

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No progress in easing financial crisis: minister

www.chinaview.cn 2006-04-20 20:01:25

RAMALLAH, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian Minister of Finance Omar Abdel Razeq said on Thursday that no progress has been made in solving the current financial crisis that crippled the Hamas-led cabinet.

Speaking to the Voice of Palestine, Abdel Razeq said that his ministry might provisionally solve the problem by loaning government employees parts of their wages.

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He also dismissed a warning by a UN report, which cautioned against deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories.

"We are not on the brink of collapse or hunger," Abdel Razeq said.

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