Monday, April 04, 2005

Arab Human Development Report 2004 to be launched tomorrow, April 5, in Amman.

RBAS - United Nations Development Programme
The title is: "Toward Freedom in the Arab World"
This volume was delayed for some months because of objections by the United States. I have heard report organizers claim recently that the U.S. cut its financial support for the UNDP to show its dissatisfaction with the report, which apparently underlines America's skewed policy in the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as the widely castigated invasion of Iraq. In effect, the U.S. seems to have been piqued because the report reflected the sentiments that are widely expressed in the Muslim Middle East.

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