USPC Annual Summary Report
On behalf of the USPC Board, I respectfully share with you our abbreviated version of our 2022 annual report on the significant activities we worked on during 2022.
The second year of President Joe Biden’s presidency never saw the light of day on two key promises made by Biden’s campaign to all of us before election. The first is the promise to reopen the PLO office in Washington, DC and the second is to reopen the shuttered U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, Palestine's de facto U.S. representative office. Meanwhile, we appreciate Biden’s administration fulfilling his other campaign promises of in the following area; refunding of UNRWA, re-engaging with the Palestinians, and the reinstatement of some of the US Aid funding.
Foreign Relations Committee Passes Van Hollen Amendment
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s passage of his amendment to the Department of State Authorization Act, requiring the State Department to provide Senators with the report overseen by the United States Security Coordinator (USSC) regarding the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Shireen Abu Akleh:
