  {"id":209168,"date":"2011-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209168"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:42:35","slug":"auto-insert-209168","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209168\/","title":{"rendered":"Quartet envoy Blair urges Israel to release Palestinian tax revenue without delay &#8211; QSE statement\/Non-UN document"},"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:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#496c61;text-align:left;font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Quartet Rep Tony Blair urges the Israeli Government to release Palestinian tax revenue without delay<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011 in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartetrep.org\/news\/\" style=\"color:#668a33;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\"><strong><u>Office of Tony Blair<\/u><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartetrep.org\/quartet\/news\/\" style=\"color:#668a33;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\"><strong><u>Office of the Quartet Representative<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Quartet Representative Tony Blair has today reiterated his call on the Israeli government to resume the transfer of Palestinian tax and customs revenue to the Palestinians &quot;without delay&quot;.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">In a statement released this afternoon, he said:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;I continue to call on the Israeli government to release the clearance revenues it is withholding from the Palestinian Authority without delay and resume their transfer on a regular basis.&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;Israel should release the Palestinians&#39; 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