President Clinton invited 50 nations and organizations to attend a donor conference Nov. 30 at the State Department to ask for new pledges of aid to support the Palestinian Authority. State Department spokesman James Rubin said Clinton will ask Congress to significantly increase the $100 million a year that the United States has provided to the Palestinians since 1994. Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat plans to attend the conference, which is expected to draw dozens of foreign ministers from around the world. A similar conference after the signing of the 1993 Oslo agreement resulted in $4 billion in pledges, of which $2.1 billion was delivered.
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