  {"id":204265,"date":"2006-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204265"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:44:30","slug":"auto-insert-204265","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204265\/","title":{"rendered":"President Putin meeting with Quartet envoy Wolfensohn &#8211; Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry press release\/Non-UN document (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/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=\"12%\" 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;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27100%27%20height%3D%27121%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20100%20121%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27100%27%20height%3D%27121%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/3490bf498eb0d062852571180051d262_image0.JPG\" border=\"0\" height=\"121px\" width=\"100px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"87%\" valign=\"top\" 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:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000080;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color:#800000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong><br \/>\nINFORMATION AND PRESS DEPARTMENT<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n_______________________________<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n32\/34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya pl., 119200, Moscow G-200; tel.: (095) 244 4119, fax: 244 4112 <br \/>\ne-mail: dip@mid.ru<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>,<\/u><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;web-address: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid.ru\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">www.mid.ru<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><br \/>\nPresident Vladimir Putin met with James Wolfenson, special representative of the &#39;quartet&#39; of Middle East peace settlement mediators &#8211; the U.S., the EU, Russia and the UN, The Kremlin, Moscow, February 15, 2006<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:12px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Mr Wolfenson was President of the World Bank until May 31, 2005. Last April, the &#8216;quartet&#8217; members appointed him to be their special representative for the Middle East peace settlement process. Mr Wolfenson already met in this capacity with Mr Putin on June 25, 2005, in St Petersburg.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:12px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Start of Meeting with James Wolfenson, special representative of the &#8216;quartet&#8217; of Middle East peace settlement mediators &#8211; the U.S., the EU, Russia and the UN<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:12px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>Vladimir Putin:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;Dear Mr Wolfenson, I am very happy to see you.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:12px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">I am very pleased to see that you are continuing to work actively even though a lot of time has passed now since you left your post at the World Bank. All the work you have done over this time has laid a good foundation for Russia&#8217;s continued cooperation with the Wold Bank. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:12px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Our relations have become even closer since that time as Russia is a member of the &#8216;quartet&#8217; and you are the &#8216;quartet&#8217;s&#8217; representative in the Middle East. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:12px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">I know that you recently visited the Persian Gulf countries and gathered considerable means for supporting the peace process in the Middle East. I am very glad to have this opportunity to talk with you about the current situation in the region. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:12px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">James Wolfenson: Mr President,<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:12px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">First of all, thank you for this opportunity to meet with you. I am also very pleased to continue working with you. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:12px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">It is my pleasure to report to you on the situation, not just as the leader of Russia but also as the leader of the country that holds the presidency of the G8 this year. I have come here to tell you about the situation and also to hear your views, your advice. I am looking forward to the chance to discuss these questions.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/counter.rambler.ru\/top100\/\" style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:10px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201%201%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/3490bf498eb0d062852571180051d262_image1.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"1px\" width=\"1px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION INFORMATION AND PRESS DEPARTMENT _______________________________ 32\/34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya pl., 119200, Moscow G-200; tel.: (095) 244 4119, fax: 244 4112 e-mail: dip@mid.ru,&nbsp;web-address: www.mid.ru President Vladimir Putin met with James Wolfenson, special representative of the &#39;quartet&#39; of Middle East peace settlement mediators &#8211; the U.S., the EU, Russia and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204265\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[1074],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[2329],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1797,1638],"entity":[1889,1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-204265","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-russian-federation","document-category-press-release","document-source-quartet","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-quartet","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204265","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\/204265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=204265"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=204265"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=204265"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=204265"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=204265"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=204265"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=204265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}