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Middle East

Volume 402: debated on Tuesday 1 April 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent discussions she has had with non-governmental organisations working in Palestine. [106007]

My Department is in regular contact with a wide range of international and Palestinian nongovernmental organisations. I recently participated in the launch of Christian Aid's report "Losing ground—Israel, poverty and the Palestinians" about the alarming rise in poverty among ordinary Palestinians.