"US President Donald Trump's Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt called for a full UN investigation into its agency for Palestinian refugees, after a report leaked Monday alleged widespread corruption and sexual misconduct.
The confidential internal ethics report claimed mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), even as the organization faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts. The allegations are now being scrutinized by UN investigators.
'We're extremely concerned about UNRWA allegations,' Greenblatt said in a tweet. 'We urge a full & transparent investigation by the UN.'
He added: 'UNRWA's model is broken/unsustainable & based on an endless expanding # of beneficiaries. Palestinians residing in refugee camps deserve much better.'
Trump's former UN envoy, Nikki Haley, took to Twitter to say, 'this is exactly why we stopped their funding.'..."
July 29, 2019
U.S. envoy urges transparent investigation of UNRWA over alleged misconduct
United States Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt (File photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Date
July 29, 2019
Title
U.S. envoy urges transparent investigation of UNRWA over alleged misconduct, Times of Israel
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