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Russia sends $10 mln to Palestine in urgent financial aid -1

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The Russian government has provided $10 million in urgent financial aid to the Palestinian National Authority, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government has provided $10 million in urgent financial aid to the Palestinian National Authority, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

"In view of the aggravating socioeconomic and humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories, the Russian government has decided to offer urgent financial aid to the Palestinian National Authority, totaling $10 million," the ministry said.

The funds, intended to be used for social and humanitarian needs, were transferred Thursday to an account of PNA President Mahmoud Abbas's office, the ministry said, adding that the transaction had been coordinated with the Middle East Quartet of mediators, comprising Russia, the EU, the United States and the United Nations.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last month it would be wrong to halt aid to the Palestinian National Authority because of radical Islamic group Hamas' dominance of its new government, in an apparent reference to the EU's decision to freeze its aid to the PNA indefinitely.

Hamas had claimed responsibility in the past for a number of terrorists acts in the region, and is on the list of terrorist organizations both in Europe and the United States. Russia does not classify it as a terrorist group, however, and was the first country to invite its delegation to talks in March, a move that one Israeli politician called a "stab in the back".

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