  {"id":187178,"date":"2002-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=187178"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:12:14","slug":"auto-insert-187178","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-187178\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast peace process &#8211; Ukrainian Foreign Ministry statement &#8211; Letter from Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Letter dated 13 March 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Upon the instruction of my Government, I have the honour to bring to your attention the statement on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, issued on 13 March 2002 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (see annex).<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>I should be grateful if you would have the present letter and its annex circulated as a document of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">(<i>Signed<\/i>) Valery <strong>Kuchinsky<\/strong><br \/>\nAmbassador<br \/>\nPermanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:12px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"1px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Annex to the letter dated 13 March 2002 from the Permanent Representative<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Statement on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question,<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>issued on 13 March 2002 by the Ministry&nbsp;&nbsp;of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The adoption by the Security Council of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/4721362DD7BA3DEA85256B7B00536C7F.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">resolution 1397 (2002) <\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, was welcomed with great satisfaction in Ukraine. In that document the authoritative United Nations body demands the immediate cessation of all acts of violence and calls upon the Israeli and Palestinian sides to cooperate in the implementation of the Tenet plan and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/D5DC11B86270215885256A680073EB5D.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Mitchell report<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;recommendations with the aim of resuming negotiations on a political settlement.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Ukraine fully shares a vision of a Middle East region, outlined in the above-mentioned Security Council resolution, where &#8220;two States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side within secure and recognized borders&#8221;. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>We hope that this significant decision of the Security Council will give the necessary impetus to the resumption of the peace process in the Middle East. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Of particular importance today is the maximum activization and coordination of the international diplomatic efforts aimed at unblocking the crisis and resuming peace negotiations. Being an active participant in these efforts, Ukraine is ready to further contribute to this end.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;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 March 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General Upon the instruction of my Government, I have the honour to bring to your attention the statement on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, issued on 13 March 2002 by the Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-187178\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[5553],"document-category":[2841,1338],"document-source":[1362],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1905],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-187178","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-ukraine","document-category-letter","document-category-statement","document-source-security-council","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/187178","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\/187178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=187178"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=187178"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=187178"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=187178"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=187178"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=187178"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=187178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}