Meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee to Assist the Palestinian People

February 9, 1999

At a meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee to Assist the Palestinian People (AHLC) held on February 4 in Frankfurt, Japan offered to host the next meeting in Japan, and it was agreed to hold the meeting in Tokyo no later than September this year. It will be co-chaired by Mr. Vollebaek, Foreign Minister of Norway, permanent chair of AHLC, and Mr. Masahiko Koumura, Japanese Foreign Minister. High-level participants are expected at the next meeting, including Dr. Nabeel Sha'ath, Minister for Planning and International Cooperation of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Vollebaek of Norway, and others.
AHLC, which meets twice a year, was established in October 1993 at the Washington Conference to support Middle East peace in order to coordinate and promote assistance efforts of individual donors for the Palestinian people.
The next meeting in Tokyo, which will take place after such major political moves as the termination of the Palestinian Interim Self-Government period on May 4 and the general elections in Israel, will be extremely important for the Middle East peace process.

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