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STORY: UN / ISRAEL PALESTINE
TRT: 02:58
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 SEPTEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
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29 SEPTEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General:
“We are again at a pivotal moment in the search for peace as a convergence of destabilizing factors threatens to pull Israelis and Palestinians further towards a one-state reality of perpetual occupation and conflict. I remain committed to supporting both sides to resolve the conflict and end the occupation in line with relevant UN resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements in pursuit of achieving the vision of two States – Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous, and viable and sovereign Palestinian State – within secure and recognized borders, based on the pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as the capital of both States.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General:
“On the 3rd of September, for the first time in nearly a decade, the PLO Executive Committee held its first meeting together with the heads of all Palestinian factions. Speakers focused on the need to restore unity and reform the PLO. President Abbas reiterated his known position that he is ready to launch negotiations with Israel under UN or international auspices, while also calling for popular resistance to confront the annexation threat.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General:
“The COVID-19 pandemic and the suspension of coordination between the Palestinian Authority and Israel in response to Israel’s plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, have contributed to worsen the already dire humanitarian, economic and political situation in Gaza, and impacted the health and socio-economic situation in the occupied West Bank. The PA’s decision to stop accepting clearance revenues that Israel collects on its behalf, has exacerbated an already concerning fiscal crisis.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rodney Hunter, Political Coordinator, US Mission to the United Nations:
“President Trump’s bold diplomacy and rejection of the old, conventional wisdom, enabled him to broker these agreements – the Abraham Accords – the first such agreements between Israel and Arab countries since 1994. I want to emphasize what President Trump has highlighted about these agreements: in Israel’s entire history, there have previously been only two such agreements. Now we have achieved two in a single month’s time, and we are hopeful there will be more to follow.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Karen Van Vlierberge, Deputy Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations:
“Israel’s commitment to suspend plans to unilaterally annex areas of the occupied Palestinian territory is a positive step and should become permanent. We remain firm in our commitment and support to a negotiated and viable two-state solution, built upon the internationally agreed parameters and international law. It is essential to that end, meaningful negotiations on all final status issues resume between Israelis and Palestinians.”
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, today (29 Sep) told the Security Council that “we are again at a pivotal moment in the search for peace as a convergence of destabilizing factors threatens to pull Israelis and Palestinians further towards a one-state reality of perpetual occupation and conflict.”
Mladenov expressed support for “both sides to resolve the conflict and end the occupation in line with relevant UN resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements in pursuit of achieving the vision of two States.”
The Special Coordinator told the Council that “on the 3rd of September, for the first time in nearly a decade, the PLO Executive Committee held its first meeting together with the heads of all Palestinian factions.”
He said, “speakers focused on the need to restore unity and reform the PLO” while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “reiterated his known position that he is ready to launch negotiations with Israel under UN or international auspices, while also calling for popular resistance to confront the annexation threat.”
Mladenov said, “the COVID-19 pandemic and the suspension of coordination between the Palestinian Authority and Israel in response to Israel’s plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, have contributed to worsen the already dire humanitarian, economic and political situation in Gaza, and impacted the health and socio-economic situation in the occupied West Bank.”
He said, “the PA’s decision to stop accepting clearance revenues that Israel collects on its behalf, has exacerbated an already concerning fiscal crisis.”
In his address to the Council, United States representative Rodney Hunter, said US President Donald Trump’s “bold diplomacy and rejection of the old, conventional wisdom,” enabled him to broker the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and between Israel and Bahrain.
Before the meeting the European Union issued a statement in support of the agreements.
Reading the statement, Belgian Ambassador, Karen Van Vlierberge said, “Israel’s commitment to suspend plans to unilaterally annex areas of the occupied Palestinian territory is a positive step and should become permanent. We remain firm in our commitment and support to a negotiated and viable two-state solution, built upon the internationally agreed parameters and international law. It is essential to that end, meaningful negotiations on all final status issues resume between Israelis and Palestinians.”
