Prime Minister Mustafa outlines three key priorities for new government

RAMALLAH: Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa today outlined three key priorities for the new government. Chairing the first meeting of the new government in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Prime Minister Mustafa affirmed that the government would focus in the current stage on three priorities, namely, alleviating the suffering of Gaza Palestinian population, achieving financial stability and implementing the Institutional Reform and Performance Development Program. Regarding the first priority, Mustafa pointed that since taking office, the government has been making international efforts and contacts to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip, including meeting the urgent dire need of humanitarian relief and Gaza reconstruction. Such efforts and contacts, he added, are made against the backdrop of the incessant Israeli genocidal war against the Strip as well as extrajudicial killings, detention raids and settler terrorism in the West Bank, which has been going through harsh securit y and economic conditions. Regarding the second priority, Mustafa affirmed that the government has commenced working on achieving financial stability in a manner that guarantees economic and social security as wel as the financial institutions' robustness. He indicated that he realized that all relief and institutional work development efforts would not be successful without realizing financial stability while pointing that the government has started exerting pressure, in cooperation with international mediators and partners, on Israel to release withheld Palestinian tax revenues. As part of the third priority, Mustafa said that the government envisages implementing a program of action for reforming and developing public institutions performance to enhance productivity, transparency and accountability. He concluded by stressing the need for public institutions to operate efficiently and be transparent and free from corruption. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA