  {"id":196636,"date":"2002-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=196636"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:14:57","slug":"auto-insert-196636","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-196636\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Gaza &#038; Bethlehem &#8211; Statement by Danish FM &#8211; Press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>On the Agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Home Rule<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>on withdrawal of Israeli security forces from Gaza and Bethlehem<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\nDanish Minister for Foreign Affairs Per Stig M&#248;ller states the following on the agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on withdrawal of Israeli security forces from Gaza and Bethlehem, concluded on Sunday 19 August 2002: <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;I welcome the agreement concluded this Sunday between Israel and the Palestinians on withdrawal of Israeli security forces from Gaza and Bethlehem pari passu with the Palestinian Home Rule assuming the responsibility for security and the fight against terrorism in the areas in question. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">It is, however, regrettable that today Israeli troops have entered Tulkarem, where two Palestinians were killed and one injured in a shooting between Israeli security forces and armed Palestinians in the Tulkerem refugee camp. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The parties must not allow such setbacks to destroy the fledgling political process. Quite the contrary, they must continue the endeavours to make further progress that may contribute towards creating the conditions for the necessary rebuilding of trust between the parties and their populations. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">I see the agreement on withdrawal now concluded as a significant contribution to facilitating the implementation of Palestinian reforms and, at a later date, Palestinian elections. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Danish Government and the EU are ready to continue supporting the endeavours of the parties to initiate a political process that may bring an end to the occupation and lead to the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, in peaceful co-existence.&quot; <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Home Rule on withdrawal of Israeli security forces from Gaza and Bethlehem Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Per Stig M&#248;ller states the following on the agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on withdrawal of Israeli security forces from Gaza and Bethlehem, concluded on Sunday 19 August 2002: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-196636\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[795],"document-category":[2877,1329],"document-source":[2505],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1905],"entity":[1889,1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-196636","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-denmark","document-category-agreement","document-category-press-release","document-source-european-union-eu","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/196636","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\/196636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=196636"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=196636"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=196636"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=196636"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=196636"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=196636"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=196636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}