VOL. XLII

No 48

29-November-1999

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia Contributes $20Mn To Palestinian CourthouseProject

The Government of Saudi Arabia agreed on 16 November toprovide a $20mn grant to Palestine to help advance the establishment of a soundand functional legal system. It will be provided through the World Bank andused for the construction of two courthouses (one in Ramallah in the West Bank,the other in Gaza City) to improve the seriously inadequate state of theinfrastructure of the...