RAMALLAH, August 21, 2011 (WAFA) – The Office of the Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (PMO) Sunday rejected as outright falsification a Yedioth Ahronoth news report, which appeared on the newspaper’s website earlier today, regarding the existence of any US threats to the Palestinian Authority (PA) during a telephone conversation between Fayyad and the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, last Thursday evening.

The PMO stressed that the content of the telephone conversation between the Prime Minister and the Secretary, as was stated clearly in an official press release right after the call, focused on the current financial crisis faced by the PA and the need for international donors to fulfill their earlier assistance pledges to the PA in order for it to overcome this crisis.

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