{"id":209948,"date":"2007-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209948"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:51:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:51:22","slug":"auto-insert-209948","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209948\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Deputy Commissioner-General visits Syria – Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA<\/p><\/div>\n

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PRESS RELEASE<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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Press Release No. 02\/2007<\/p>\n

08 February 2007<\/p>\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Visits Syria<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi arrived in Syria today, for the first of four days of high-level meetings and visits. During his visit, Mr Grandi will meet with Syrian Government officials to provide a briefing on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA programmes and activities in all fields of operation, and to provide an update on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA’s Organizational Development (OD) plan. The OD plan is an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA initiative targeting internal Agency reform which will ultimately improve the services provided by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA to the Palestine refugee community. Mr. Grandi will also meet with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA senior and middle management to hold discussions regarding the OD process.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Deputy Commissioner-General will also tour Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA installations in Damascus, Derra and Latakkia, and meet with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA staff as well as members of the broader Palestine refugee community. A tour will be made of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA-contracted Italian Hospital in the company of HE Francesco Cerulli, Ambassador of Italy to Syria, and Mr Panos Moumtzis, Director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Affairs in Syria. Mr. Grandi will meet with all Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Agencies in Syria, including the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Resident Co-ordinator.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On 20 February, in the company of the Deputy Minister of Education, Mr. Sulieman Al-Khatib, HE Masaki Kinieda, Ambassador from Japan, and Mr. Ali Mustafa, General Director of the General Authority of Palestine Arab Refugees, the Deputy Commissioner-General will visit Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA’s Education Development Centre. He will also attend the opening ceremony of the Japanese-funded Jerusalem\/Yazour School computer lab and multi-purpose classroom. Following this event, the Deputy Commissioner-General will attend an ICT conference between Palestinian and Japanese students, and a softball training session for Palestinian refugee girls by the Japanese International Co-operation Agency (JICA).<\/p><\/div>\n

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A special highlight of the Deputy Commissioner-General's trip will be the presentation of award certificates to Agency staff, in recognition for 25 years of service with the Agency, during visits to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA installations.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA is a humanitarian and human development Agency providing education, health care, social services, micro-credit and emergency relief to over 4 million registered refugees living in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic. In Syria, the Agency provides assistance to over 430,000 refugees.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not an official record<\/p><\/div>\n

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For further information please contact:<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hala Mukhles<\/p><\/div>\n

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Office: 6133035 ext 314<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mobile: 093-416591<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA PRESS RELEASE Press Release No. 02\/2007 08 February 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Visits Syria Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi arrived in Syria today, for the first of four days of high-level meetings and visits. During his visit, Mr Grandi will meet with Syrian Government officials to provide a briefing on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2153,1745],"entity":[5343,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-209948","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-refugee-camps","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-palestine-plo-palestinian-authority","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=209948"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=209948"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=209948"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=209948"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=209948"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=209948"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=209948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}