{"id":200018,"date":"2003-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=200018"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:53:34","slug":"auto-insert-200018","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-200018\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Peace process &#8211; Spokesman&#8217;s Office (excerpts)"},"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:16pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong><br \/>\nBY HUA JIANG<br \/>\nDEPUTY SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS<br \/>\nUN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\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;\"><strong>Tuesday, July 1, 2003<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\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;\"><strong>ANNAN IN BERN, SWITZERLAND, FOR AN OFFICIAL VISIT <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">In responding to a question regarding the Middle East<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=70&amp;Body=Palestin&amp;Body1=\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, the Secretary-General said that he was encouraged by the developments in the last 72 hours. &#8220;We see it as a beginning, but we have quite a long way to go,&#8221; he said, adding &#8220;the decision of the Palestinian groups to agree to a ceasefire is important. I want to see a situation where all these movements and groups are transformed into political parties to play a role in democratic Palestine.&#8221; <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\/&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/div>\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;\"><strong>MIDEAST: UN ENVOY BRIEFS SAUDI MINISTER ON QUARTET MEETING<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Terje Roed-Larsen, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process, is Saudi Arabia today where he met with Prince Saud Al Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister.&#160;\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Larsen briefed the Saudi Minister on the Quartet meeting in Jordan.&#160; 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