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Development Sweden #50. Sweden stops support to UNRWA

Development Sweden #50. Sweden stops support to UNRWA

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Dear readers,

Welcome to a new year with Development Sweden. In late December, the Swedish Government presented its appropriation letter (budget instructions, in other words) for the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency Sida and other governmental agencies.

The major news was that Sweden would end all support to the UN agency for Palestine, UNRWA. Besides that, there are large cuts in support to the UN emergency support CERF and to other UN agencies.

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Our headlines

Sweden stops support to UNRWA

ODA via Sida to be reduced by 11 percent

375 million from the ODA budget for migration

Increased Swedish support for Ukraine


New appointment

Elinor Hammarskjöld new Head of Legal Affairs at the UN

Elinor Hammarskjöld has been appointed Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Head of Legal Affairs at the United Nations. Elinor Hammarskjöld is currently serving as Head of Legal Affairs and Head of the Legal Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“I am honored to have received this trust. I look forward to contributing to the UN’s important role in the legal field,” says Elinor Hammarskjöld in a press release from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

She has previously been Sweden’s ambassador to Israel, head of the Ministry’s Unit for International Law, Human Rights and Treaty Law and the Ministry's head of personnel, as well as working at the UN Representation in New York and at the Swedish Consulate General in Jerusalem.

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