Efforts Continue to End Birzeit University Crisis, says Lawmaker
Date : 21/1/2012 Time : 14:39
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RAMALLAH, January 21, 2012 (WAFA) – Lawmaker Bassam Salhi said Saturday that
mediation efforts to end a crisis at Birzeit University that forced the
administration to shut down campus will continue until they succeed to bring
life to the university back to normal.

Salhi, along with lawmaker Walid Assaf, have been mediating between the
students and the administration to end the crisis that started after a group
of students took over the main administration building last week in a
protest move against university failure to address issues of tuition payment
for several hundred students.

Salhi told Voice of Palestine radio that his initiative demands immediate
return to dialogue between the university administration and the student
council from the point it has ended before the eruption of the crisis.

“As soon as we start the talks, the protesters inside the university will
end their strike and the university will reopen its doors for all students
with a guarantee not to take action against those who participated in the
protest,” he said.

The administration welcomed Salhi’s call to start a dialogue with the
student body insisting that all financial issues will be resolved.

M.H./M.S.