State Department Says Palestinian Maneuver Won't Bar U.S. From Funding UN Green Fund

摘要

The Obama administration is vowing to keep money flowing to the UN Green Climate Fund over objections from Republican senators who say it violates a 1994 U.S. funding prohibition that was triggered when Palestine joined a 1992 climate treaty. Twenty-eight Republicans, led by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), warned the State Department April 18 that the 1994 law bars U.S. funding of any UN-"affiliated organization" granting membership to Palestine, which isn't universally recognized as a state (47 ER 1225, 4/22/16). Julia Frifield, State Department assistant secretary for legislative affairs, wrote in a letter to Barrasso April 22 that the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which Palestine joined in March, is neither an agency nor an organization-but is instead a treaty.