In an environment in which security management and trade facilitation cannot be
divorced from one another, and in which success in balancing both requirements is
essential to Palestinian trade development, the Bank recommends the creation of a
unified Palestinian border management agency.

Currently the PA has not decided on a “home” for such an agency, nor is there yet full
agreement to establish it. In the opinion of the Bank, further delays in making these
decisions will damage the orderly development of Palestinian border management and
will further reinforce today’s unilateral system of border management. One good way to
rebalance the current system is to place concrete alternatives on the negotiating table.

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