THE DE-VIOLISATION AND RETURN TO SECURITISATION Sample Clauses

THE DE-VIOLISATION AND RETURN TO SECURITISATION. The Maqaren Dam was resurrected in 1975 as an idea in Jordan's Seven Year Plan, and Jordanian water officials approached their Israeli counterparts about the low dam at Mukheiba in 1977. While the Israelis proved amenable at a ministerial-level meeting in Zurich, as “a more-even flow of the river would benefit all of the riparians,” the Israeli government that year lost interest in the project23. This stalemate might have continued except for strong US involvement in 1980, when President Xxxxxx pledged a $9 million loan towards the Maqaren project, and Congress approved an additional $150 million “provided that all of the riparians agree.” Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx was sent to the region to help mediate an agreement. While Xxxxx was able to gain consensus on the concept of the dam, on separating the question of the Yarmouk from that of West Bank allocations, and on the difficult question of summer flow, final ratification was never reached. Syria and Jordan reaffirmed mutual commitment to a dam at Maqarin in 1987, whereby Jordan would receive 75% of the water stored in the proposed dam, and Syria would receive all of the hydropower generated. The agreement 22 Xxxxx “Why not water wars” 23 Xxxxxx 1991 called for funding from the World Bank, which insisted that all riparians had to agree to a project before it might have been funded. Israel refused until its concerns about the winter flow of the river were addressed. Against this backdrop, Jordan in 1989 approached the US Department of State for help in resolving the dispute. Ambassador Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx was dispatched to the region in September to resume indirect mediation between Jordan and Israel where Xxxxxx Xxxxx had left off a decade earlier. The points raised during the following year were left, once more, without a definitive solution: