AMMAN — The
Jordan Response Plan (JRP) for the Syria
Crisis received only 30 percent of the total required funding last year,
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Zeina Toukan said Sunday,
according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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Jordan has just secured $760 million out of the required
$2.28 billion to deal with the crisis, she added.
“International support for the
Jordan Response Plan decreased over the past few years,” Toukan said during a meeting of
parliament’s finance committee, which had convened to discuss the 2023 draft
budget law.
The international community has retreated from direct
support to Syrian refugees, she said, crediting the retreat to other political
and economic crises in the world. Toukan stressed that Jordan is constantly
calling on the international community to fulfill its responsibilities towards
refugees.
The
US renewed its fourth memorandum of understanding on aid
to Jordan, she added.
The US will increase aid from $1.275 billion to $1.450
billion and
extend it over the next seven years.
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