{"id":204420,"date":"2014-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204420"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:46:13","slug":"auto-insert-204420","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204420\/","title":{"rendered":"US Department of State daily press briefing &#8211; Update on Middle East peace process\/Tax revenue transfers to PA\/Non-UN document (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Jen Psaki<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Spokesperson<br \/>\nDaily Press Briefing<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Washington, DC<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>April 11, 2014<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/dpb\/2014\/04\/224692.htm#MIDDLEEASTPEACE\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\"><u>MIDDLE EAST PEACE<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">Ambassador Indyk&#39;s Schedule <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">Tax Revenue Transfers to Palestinian Authority <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;Peace process?<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MS. PSAKI:<\/strong>&nbsp;Sure.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;Any update on the negotiations between the two parties? Any agreement has been achieved or &#8212;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MS. PSAKI:<\/strong>&nbsp;I don&#8217;t have any update. I mentioned yesterday that Ambassador Indyk is returning. He is returning today. I understand he&#8217;ll be back in the United States later this evening. I don&#8217;t have any travel updates for you, so we&#8217;ll continue that discussion next week.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;How about the Israeli decision to suspend the transfer of tax revenue to the PA? Anything on that?<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MS. PSAKI:<\/strong>&nbsp;Well, we&#8217;ve seen these press reports, but we have not seen an official public announcement by the Government of Israel, so it&#8217;s &#8211; we&#8217;re not in a position to confirm either the specifics or the details that have been reported. That said, we would regard such a development as unfortunate. We believe that the regular transfer of the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s tax revenues and economic cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority has been beneficial and is important to the well-being of the Palestinian economy.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;Do you regard the transfer of money as something that the Israelis are obligated to do under Oslo or post-Oslo, any post-Oslo agreements, or is this kind of a privilege that the Israelis can suspend or put back into place kind of at will?<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MS. PSAKI:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mm-hmm. It&#8217;s a good technical question, Matt. I&#8217;m not sure what our team views it as, whether it&#8217;s obligation or just something we think is useful and unhelpful to stop. So let me talk to them and see if we can clarify that further.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;Well, I mean, it&#8217;s more than just useful. They can&#8217;t &#8211; they can barely pay their salaries of their people as it is, so &#8212;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MS. PSAKI:<\/strong>&nbsp;Right. As I said, it would be unfortunate if that were &#8211; if those reports are true.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;Do you think there&#8217;d be any &#8211; if this is the case, would there be any move, do you think, within the U.S., to fill in the gap or &#8211; even temporarily and then &#8211; financially, I mean.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MS. PSAKI:<\/strong>&nbsp;I&#8217;m not aware of a discussion of that.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">(The briefing was concluded at 1:36 p.m.)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>DPB #64<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:5px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:5pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\"><i>doclink: <\/i><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/dpb\/2014\/04\/224692.htm\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:5px;font-size:5pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\"><i>http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/dpb\/2014\/04\/224692.htm<\/i><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Psaki Spokesperson Daily Press Briefing Washington, DC April 11, 2014 MIDDLE EAST PEACE&nbsp; Ambassador Indyk&#39;s Schedule Tax Revenue Transfers to Palestinian Authority \/&#8230; QUESTION:&nbsp;Peace process? MS. PSAKI:&nbsp;Sure. QUESTION:&nbsp;Any update on the negotiations between the two parties? Any agreement has been achieved or &#8212; MS. PSAKI:&nbsp;I don&#8217;t have any update. 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