{"id":205425,"date":"2003-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=205425"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:58:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:58:55","slug":"auto-insert-205425","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205425\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Peace process &#8211; Spokesman&#8217;s Office (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"4px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\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<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong><\/p>\n<p>BY HUA JIANG<br \/>\nDEPUTY SPOKESWOMAN 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>Thursday, July 10, 2003<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\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 MEETS WITH AFRICAN LEADERS IN MARGINS OF SUMMIT<\/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 afternoon, he began a series of meetings in the margins of the Summit, starting with Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib Ben Yahia, with whom he discussed regional issues, as well as the importance of support for the Middle East <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/dh\/mideast\/roadmap122002.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>Road Map<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">; they also touched on Iraq.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=50&amp;Body=Iraq&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;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\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;\">\/&#8230;\n<\/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 TO MEET WITH BUSH IN WASHINGTON, D.C. ON MONDAY<\/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;\">The Secretary-General plans to travel to Washington on Monday, July 14, to meet with President George W. Bush and his advisers. While in Washington, the Secretary-General also plans to meet with a number of members of Congress and Senators. &#160;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\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;\">\/&#8230;\n<\/p><\/div>\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;\">She added that they could be expected to talk about the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other topics of mutual interest, including anti-terrorism, the fight against poverty and AIDS.&nbsp;&nbsp;The meeting, she added, was requested by the Secretary-General. \n<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about other attendees, she noted that Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Kieran Prendergast and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean Marie Gu&#233;henno would accompany the Secretary-General. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\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;\">\/&#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;\">The Office of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.ch\/cgi-bin\/texis\/vtx\/home\/%20TwwBmeklnmCwwwwrwwwwwwwhFqnN0bItFqnDni5AFqnN0bIDzmxwwwwwww\/opendoc.html\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>UN High Commissioner for Refugees<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;(UNHCR) said it would start registering some 80,000 Palestinian refugees in Iraq by the beginning of next month. The registration exercise is necessary so that UNHCR can provide the Palestinians with documents as a first measure of protection.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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;\">\/&#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;\">Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General<br \/>\nUnited Nations, S-378<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10017<br \/>\nTel. 212-963-7162 &#8211;<strong>&nbsp;press\/media only<\/strong><br \/>\nFax. 212-963-7055<\/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>All other inquiries to be addressed to (212) 963-4475 or by e-mail to: inquiries@un.org<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING BY HUA JIANG DEPUTY SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Thursday, July 10, 2003 ANNAN MEETS WITH AFRICAN LEADERS IN MARGINS OF SUMMIT This afternoon, he began a series of meetings in the margins of the Summit, starting with Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib Ben <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205425\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1587],"document-source":[5352,1877],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1749,1797,1638],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-205425","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-note","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-special-coordinator-for-the-middle-east-peace-process-unsco","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-quartet","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/205425","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\/205425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=205425"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=205425"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=205425"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=205425"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=205425"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=205425"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=205425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}