Countries participated in an international conference in Berlin on Tuesday pledged 242 million U.S. dollars to help Palestinians build well-functioning security and justice systems.
The money would be provided to the Palestinian Authority over the next three years to fund projects that include police training, building police stations and courthouses as well as better equipping Palestinian police, organizers of the Berlin conference said.
Most of the funding was expected to come from the 7.4 billion dollars pledged at a donors' conference in Paris last December.
The Berlin conference was attended by representatives from more than 40 countries including Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The conference will be followed in the evening by a meeting of the Middle East Quartet -- the United States, the EU, Russia and the United Nations, the first of such talks since a ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip last week.
Source:Xinhua
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