UN / PALESTINE

In his regular three-month briefing to the Security Council, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said “Israel's illegal settlement activities have continued at a high rate, a consistent pattern over the course of this year.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:38
• Production Date: 25 September 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: NICKOLAY MLADENOV
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: PEACE PROCESS
• Geographic Subject: PALESTINE
• MAMS Id: 1979428
• Parent Id: 1979428
• Alternate Title: unifeed170925e

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STORY: UN / PALESTINE
TRT: 1:38
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 25 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters

25 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Zoom in, president
4. Wide shot, Council in meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process, United Nations:
“Since 20 June, Israel's illegal settlement activities have continued at a high rate, a consistent pattern over the course of this year. Activity during this period was concentrated primarily in occupied East Jerusalem, where plans were advanced for over 2,300 housing units in July, 30 per cent more than for the whole of 2016.”
6. Med shot, Palestinian ambassador
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process, United Nations:
“The United Nations considers all settlement activities to be illegal under international law and an impediment to peace. Resolution 2334 states that the international community will not recognize any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed to by the parties themselves through negotiations.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process, United Nations:
“The reporting period also witnessed a shrinking space for civil society and freedom of expression. On 24 June, the Palestinian President issued, by decree, the Cybercrime Law. Since then at least six journalists, one human rights activist in Hebron and a number of others have reportedly been arrested. While most have been subsequently released, these arrests raise strong concerns that the law is being used to curtail freedom of expression.”
10. Wide shot, meeting

Storyline

In his regular three-month briefing to the Security Council, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said “Israel's illegal settlement activities have continued at a high rate, a consistent pattern over the course of this year.”

Mladenov was briefing on the period from 20 June to 20 September, during which, as Mladenov reported, Israel has not "cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and fully respect all of its legal obligations in this regard," as called for by the Security Council resolution 2334.

On 23rd December 2016, with fourteen votes in favour and one abstention from the United States, the Security Council adopted the resolution 2334 which said “Israel’s establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the vision of two States living side-by-side in peace and security, within internationally recognized borders.”

The UN Special Coordinator reported to Council’s members that only in occupied East Jerusalem, “plans were advanced for over 2,300 housing units in July, 30 per cent more than for the whole of 2016.”

Mladenov underlined that “the United Nations considers all settlement activities to be illegal under international law and an impediment to peace” and that “the international community will not recognize any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed to by the parties themselves through negotiations.”

He also said that “the reporting period also witnessed a shrinking space for civil society and freedom of expression”

On 24 June, the Palestinian President issued, by decree, the Cybercrime Law.

Mladenov reported that “since then at least six journalists, one human rights activist in Hebron and a number of others have reportedly been arrested. While most have been subsequently released, these arrests raise strong concerns that the law is being used to curtail freedom of expression.”