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May 20, 2019

First Phase of Kushner's Middle East Peace Plan to Focus on Palestinian Economy
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The White House announced Sunday the first phase of senior adviser and
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's Middle East peace plan will take
place next month in Bahrain and is being billed as an economic
"workshop" to encourage financial investment in the occupied Palestinian
territories. The workshop will bring together finance ministers with
business leaders from around the world. They will reportedly avoid
addressing any political issues. Palestinian officials said they were
not consulted prior to the planning of the so-called workshop, and
dismissed any attempts to tackle peace talks in the region without
addressing human rights and the illegal occupation. This is Palestinian
Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.

Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh: "The American administration announced
there will be a workshop next month about the economic and investment
situation in the region, including Palestine, as a first step of the
'deal of the century.' The Cabinet stresses that any solution to the
political conflict depends on ending the occupation, achieving the
national rights of the Palestinian people, expressed by establishing
their independent, sovereign and viable state on the 1967 borders, with
Jerusalem as its capital."



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