Bahrain is set to host the so-called “Peace to Prosperity” workshop to discuss what the US described as the economic part of President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, his proposal for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The meeting on June 25 and 26 in Manama has been widely criticised over the lack of representation of the Palestinian leadership, which is boycotting the gathering.
According to the White House, the meeting “will facilitate discussions on an ambitious, achievable vision and framework for a prosperous future for the Palestinian people and the region”.
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Monday, June 24:
Palestinian PM: Economic plan is ‘nonsense’
Mohammad Shtayyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, called the US economic plan “nonsense”.
“We have realised that this economic workshop in Bahrain is going to be really of nonsense, it is just simply a theoretical piece of work calling for $50bn,” Shtayyeh said.
“We don’t know where this money is going to come from but we know that the economic problem in Palestine has to do with all the Israeli measures.
“I have not seen in the document any reference to the occupation, I have not seen in the document any reference to settlements, we have not seen in the document any reference to ending occupation. This workshop is simply a political laundry for settlements and a legitimatisation of occupation,” the prime minister said at a cabinet meeting in Ramallah.
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