  {"id":184071,"date":"2009-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=184071"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:39:37","slug":"auto-insert-184071","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-184071\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations &#8211; Chair&#8217;s summary of the Group of Eight Summit (L&#8217;Aquila, Italy) &#8211; Letter from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Letter dated 13 July 2009 from the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>I have the honour to attach herewith the Chair&#8217;s summary of the L&#8217;Aquila Summit containing a synthesis of the discussions and of the documents adopted, from 8 to 10 July, by L&#8217;Aquila Group of Eight Summit (see annex).\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>As you know, seven documents were approved in the course of the three-day event: the G-8 Declaration on Responsible Leadership for a Sustainable Future, the G-8 Declaration against Terrorism, the G-8 L&#8217;Aquila Declaration on Non-Proliferation, the joint Declaration on Promoting the Global Agenda, the Major Economies Forum Declaration on energy and the climate, the G-8\/Africa Declaration on a Strengthened G-8\/Africa Partnership on Water and Basic Sanitary Conditions and the joint Declaration on Global Food Security known as &#8220;L&#8217;Aquila Food Security Initiative&#8221;.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The documents can be consulted on the website: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g8italia2009.it\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">www.g8italia2009.it<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>I would highly appreciate it if the Secretariat would kindly arrange for the present letter and its annex to be circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 44, and of the Security Council.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:80px;\">\n\t\t\t\t(<i>Signed<\/i>) Giulio <strong>Terzi<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:80px;\">\n\t\t\t\tAmbassador\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:20px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Annex to the letter dated 13 July 2009 from the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t\t<\/span>Chair&#8217;s summary<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t\t<\/span>L&#8217;Aquila, 10 July 2009<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\tThe Group of Eight Summit was held in the city of L&#8217;Aquila from 8 to 10 July 2009 to show solidarity with the population of the region, severely hit by an earthquake on 6 April, and with all those around the world who have been touched by natural disasters.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>G-8 leaders discussed the interlinked challenges of the economic crisis, poverty, climate change and international political issues. They shared a vision of a world economy that is open, innovative, sustainable and fair.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\/&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\tOn 8 July G-8 leaders met to discuss the world economy, development, climate change and international political issues. From 9 July they were joined by Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, establishing a structured and continued dialogue on a broad range of global issues. Egypt was also invited to participate in the meeting. Discussions progressed with the participation of heads of international organizations; all other members of the Major Economies Forum joined them to address trade and climate change. African leaders and G-8 partners discussed the implications of the crisis for Africa. Finally, in a broader format, leaders tackled the issue of food security.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\/&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>International political issues<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\/..\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Looking forward to a comprehensive peace between Israel and all its neighbours, the leaders reiterated their full support to the two-State solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urged the parties to rapidly resume direct negotiations. They also called on them to fulfil their obligations under the road map. G-8 leaders remained engaged to fully support the Palestinian Authority including, once a peace agreement is reached, through the launching of an ambitious and comprehensive plan that would develop infrastructure and foster economic activities in the future Palestinian State.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\/&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">_________<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter dated 13 July 2009 from the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General I have the honour to attach herewith the Chair&#8217;s summary of the L&#8217;Aquila Summit containing a synthesis of the discussions and of the documents adopted, from 8 to 10 July, by L&#8217;Aquila Group of Eight Summit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-184071\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[1074],"document-category":[2841,2809],"document-source":[3265,1362],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1797,2557,2741],"entity":[1889,1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-184071","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-russian-federation","document-category-letter","document-category-summary","document-source-g-8","document-source-security-council","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-road-map","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/184071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/184071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=184071"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=184071"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=184071"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=184071"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=184071"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=184071"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=184071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}