{"id":204213,"date":"2002-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204213"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:43:55","slug":"auto-insert-204213","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204213\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East situation &#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:17pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong><br \/>\nBY FRED ECKHARD<br \/>\nSPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS<br \/>\nUN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, December 17, 2002<\/strong><\/span><\/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;\">&#160;\/&#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>SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF UN OBSERVERS IN GOLAN HEIGHTS<\/strong><\/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;\">This morning, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1451 (2002) extending the mandate of the UN Disengagement Force in the Golan (UNDOF<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/Depts\/dpko\/missions\/undof\/index.html\" 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;\">) for a further six months, until June 30, 2003. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Earlier this morning, the Security Council held a meeting with troop contributing countries to the UNDOF. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hedi Annabi briefed members on the Secretary-General&#8217;s latest<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/Docs\/sc\/reports\/2002\/sgrep02.htm\" 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;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/E7190EDBC71B994485256C91006D3F26.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">report<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The new UN military advisor Maj. Gen. Patrick Cammaert <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">was introduce at the meeting. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Council members then went into consultations today on UNDOF with a view to a formal meeting to extend that mission&#39;s mandate by six months.\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">At 3:30 p.m. this afternoon, the Secretary-General&#8217;s Special Representative for Angola Ibrahim Gambari will brief the Council on the latest report, first in an open meeting and then in consultations. \n<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Cyprus, which had been scheduled for this morning, has been moved to Wednesday afternoon. \n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Monday afternoon, Terje Roed Larsen, The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/Press\/docs\/2002\/sc7603.doc.htm\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>briefed<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;the Council in an open meeting on the situation in the Middle East. Amid a growing consensus on the need for a two-State solution to the Middle East conflict, bloodshed and economic collapse are intensifying in the region, Larsen said. He urged the international efforts to reconcile plans with reality. Larsen also noted that the roadmap for peace outlined by the diplomatic Quartet &#8211; the United Nations, United States, Russian Federation and European Union &#8211; provides the best tool to achieve this goal. During consultations, a draft resolution on the recent deaths of three UN workers in Occupied Palestinian territory was introduced. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING BY FRED ECKHARD SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Tuesday, December 17, 2002 &#160;\/&#8230; SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF UN OBSERVERS IN GOLAN HEIGHTS This morning, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1451 (2002) extending the mandate of the UN Disengagement Force in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204213\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1587],"document-source":[2985,5352],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1813,1749,2073,1929],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-204213","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-note","document-source-secretariat","document-source-secretary-general","document-subject-middle-east-situation","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-peace-building","document-subject-peacekeeping","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204213","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\/204213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=204213"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=204213"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=204213"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=204213"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=204213"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=204213"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=204213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}