EU and Hamas responsive to Chirac plan to pay PA salaries
he Euopean Union and the militant Hamas organization appeared responsive Friday to a plan by French President Jacques Chirac to bypass a freeze on funds to the Hamas-led Palestinian government that would provide salaries the 165,000 Palestinian Authority employees still waiting for March's wages. Chirac called earlier Friday for the creation of a World Bank fund to pay the salaries of Palestinian officials, his office said after he met with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.
"Any means that will maintain the authority of the government and the preservation of money and at the same time help the Palestinian people we will study and think about thoroughly," said Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas official.
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