  {"id":199662,"date":"2012-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=199662"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:49:35","slug":"auto-insert-199662","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-199662\/","title":{"rendered":"Quartet holds informal consultations (12 March 2012) &#8211; Note by the Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" valign=\"center\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"15%\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"text-align:center;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%2777%27%20height%3D%2775%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%2077%2075%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%2777%27%20height%3D%2775%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/ed26d226ef0de152852579bf00510378_image0.JPG\" border=\"0\" height=\"75px\" width=\"77px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"84%\" valign=\"center\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color:#418ecb;text-align:left;font-size:20pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Secretary-General<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#418ecb;text-align:left;font-size:14pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>SG\/2181<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"84%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"text-align:center;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"1px\" color=\"#f79e18\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#418ecb;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<div style=\"margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Department of Public Information &#8226; News and Media Division &#8226; New York<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong><u>MIDDLE EAST QUARTET HOLDS INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS<\/u><\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&#160;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The following note was issued today in New York by the Middle East Quartet following informal consultations:<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union) and Quartet Representative Blair held informal consultations today to assess developments since its statement of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/5B0D91439CED286F852579140072337B.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">23 September 2011<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Quartet Principals remain committed to the overall objectives of the statement. In this regard, they welcome the important effort led by Jordan, which began in early January, as part of the shared commitment to reach a negotiated agreement by the end of this year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Quartet also discussed the grave situation in Gaza and southern Israel, expressed serious concern for the recent escalation and called for calm.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Quartet reiterates its call on the parties to remain engaged and to refrain from provocative actions.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Quartet decided to meet in Washington in April.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>* *** *<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:1px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"1px\" color=\"#f79e18\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#528ece;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>For information media &#8226; not an official record<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary-General SG\/2181 Department of Public Information &#8226; News and Media Division &#8226; New York MIDDLE EAST QUARTET HOLDS INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS &#160; The following note was issued today in New York by the Middle East Quartet following informal consultations: The Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union) and Quartet Representative Blair held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-199662\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897,1074,2553],"document-category":[1587,1329,3205,1338],"document-source":[2505,2329,5352,5921,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1857,1797,1905,1638],"entity":[1889,1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-199662","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","country-russian-federation","country-united-states-of-america","document-category-note","document-category-press-release","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-european-union-eu","document-source-quartet","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","document-subject-quartet","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\/199662","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\/199662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=199662"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=199662"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=199662"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=199662"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=199662"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=199662"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=199662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}