{"id":193972,"date":"2007-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=193972"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:43:11","slug":"auto-insert-193972","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-193972\/","title":{"rendered":"International conference in Annapolis – SecGen Press encounter – Unofficial transcript (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PRESS ENCOUNTER ON RETURN <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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FROM HIS TRIP TO ARGENTINA, CHILE, ANTARCTICA, BRAZIL, TUNISIA, LEBANON AND SPAIN<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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AT THE SECURITY COUNCIL STAKEOUT<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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19 November 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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(unofficial transcript)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Q:  Secretary-General.  Maybe, apart from [US] Secretary Rice, you are the only international figure to have already confirmed going to Annapolis.  What do you expect to happen in Annapolis? <\/p><\/div>\n

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SG:  In fact, I had telephone talks with Secretary Rice yesterday and I’m going to participate in [the] Annapolis international conference on the Middle East.  I think this international conference in Annapolis will be a good beginning of a credible process to resolve all these issues.  At the same time, I’d like to see that the participants in the Annapolis meeting base their expectation on a more practical and realistic assessment.  They are now watching to see the Israeli and Palestinian track as a main track to be discussed in depth.  At the same time, I hope that this process will be built upon, more comprehensively, as progress continues.  This is my sincere hope and my understanding.  I know that there are some different levels of expectation according to who participates there, particularly Arab countries.  We hope, first of all, while  this first meeting will [continue to concentrate] on the Arab\/Israeli track, [that] this process should be able to address [the issue] comprehensively [according to] the relevant Security Council resolutions, 242 and 338, and other relevant resolutions, and also have the Arab Peace Initiative as core elements.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Q:   Do you have a date?<\/p><\/div>\n

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SG:  That is what we need to discuss.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Q:    Is there a date already for Annapolis?<\/p><\/div>\n

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SG:  That is what the American Government should announce, but I am aware of the dates, but I am not the person who should officially make it public.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Q:   My question is related to Annapolis.   Any Middle East peace process under the current situation, without the participation of Hamas, would it be really a peace process without the participation of an elected government, which is Hamas?<\/p><\/div>\n

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SG:  As I said, this process will be addressed more comprehensively as time goes by, as progress is made.  For this particular specific issue – like participation of Hamas, or any specific issues or agenda, that, I hope, we will be able to discuss at a later stage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PRESS ENCOUNTER ON RETURN FROM HIS TRIP TO ARGENTINA, CHILE, ANTARCTICA, BRAZIL, TUNISIA, LEBANON AND SPAIN AT THE SECURITY COUNCIL STAKEOUT 19 November 2007 (unofficial transcript) \/… Q:  Secretary-General.  Maybe, apart from [US] Secretary Rice, you are the only international figure to have already confirmed going to Annapolis.  What do you expect to happen in Annapolis? SG:  In […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2565,1329,1869],"document-source":[5352,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1749,2577,1797,1905],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-193972","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-briefing","document-category-press-release","document-category-transcript","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-peace-conference","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/193972","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\/193972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=193972"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=193972"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=193972"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=193972"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=193972"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=193972"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=193972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}