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To: LindyBill who started this subject4/1/2004 3:24:44 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793555
 
good news. Wish they could have told us if the amount paid changed significantly:

PA reform: Security salaries to be deposited directly
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

For the first time since its establishment in 1994, the Palestinian Authority on Thursday paid the salaries of all its security personnel directly into their bank accounts. Until now, the money was delivered in cash to each one of the heads of the security forces.

The PA has been under immense pressure form European donors to stop the cash payments, which encouraged corruption in the security forces.

PA Chairman Yasser Arafat and the security chiefs had strenuously opposed the move, fearing it could loosen their grip on the security forces.

But PA Finance Minister Salam Fayad insisted that the salaries be deposited directly to the bank accounts, ending a two-year standoff with Arafat.

"This is very important. We can now say that we have an unprecedented system of paying salaries through banks," he said. Fayad said the PA did not face trouble paying the salaries of its employees this month after the European Union paid 40 milllion Euros to cover the deficit in its budget, one of two annual payments promised by the Europeans.

International aid accounts for 60 percent of the annual budget of the Palestinian Authority, but the PA has faced difficulties in raising money recently from donors concerned about corruption.

Security chiefs had used the salaries to establish loyalty - some Palestinian officials said slavery - among their troops, docking or withholding salaries from those who disobeyed or angered them. The chiefs also skimmed some of their staffers salaries and padded their lists of employees to get more money for themselves, PA officials said.

Before Thursday, only about 40 percent of the security forces were paid directly through their bank accounts.
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