  {"id":205477,"date":"2014-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=205477"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:59:29","slug":"auto-insert-205477","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205477\/","title":{"rendered":"UNOPS Exec. Director holds high-level meetings with Israeli and Palestinian authorities to discuss reconstruction in Gaza &#8211; UNOPS news item"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:8px;text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">08\/12\/2014<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#104160;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>UNOPS fundamental to reconstruction in Gaza<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#5291ef;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4.5px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Under-Secretary General and UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo held high-level meetings<br \/>\nwith Israeli and Palestinian authorities earlier today, aimed at strengthening support to the Middle East peace process<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Rami Hamadallah met Ms. Faremo and other senior UNOPS officials to discuss the rehabilitation of infrastructure in Palestine.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;UNOPS has a fundamental role to play in this process, whether through providing technical support or consultancy services within its areas of its expertise &#8212; and in particular in sustainable infrastructure,&quot; said Dr. Hamadallah, adding he welcomed UNOPS interest in and support to the reconstruction of Gaza.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">I<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">n a separate meeting Ms. Faremo also met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to discuss the reconstruction efforts. <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:MS Gothic, serif, monospace;\">&#8232;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&quot;Even though the situation is challenging, good progress has been made so far,&quot; stated Ms. Faremo, following discussions with President Rivlin.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;UNOPS will offer continued support to all sides in this process.&nbsp;&nbsp;We take great pride in implementing projects and will be happy to work with Israel, the Palestinians, the United Nations and the European Union,&quot; Ms. Faremo added. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">UNOPS have undertaken a number of projects in regard to<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k4uv2cSuaI0\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>rehabilitation in the region<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">, and are working towards the long term <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/2F6F620B25A22BC985257DAA005004EE.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>rebuilding of Gaza<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;in cooperation with the UN Special Coordinator and the Middle East Quartet.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:MS Gothic, serif, monospace;\">&#8232;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:MS Gothic, serif, monospace;\">&#8232;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&quot;We can only make our modest contribution by showing people that there is a choice and a future,&quot; Ms. Faremo concluded.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:9px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unops.org\/english\/News\/Pages\/UNOPS-fundamental-to-reconstruction-to-Gaza.aspx\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">https:\/\/www.unops.org\/english\/News\/Pages\/UNOPS-fundamental-to-reconstruction-to-Gaza.aspx<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08\/12\/2014 UNOPS fundamental to reconstruction in Gaza Under-Secretary General and UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo held high-level meetings with Israeli and Palestinian authorities earlier today, aimed at strengthening support to the Middle East peace process Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Rami Hamadallah met Ms. Faremo and other senior UNOPS officials to discuss the rehabilitation of infrastructure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205477\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2453,2477],"document-source":[3185],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,2005,1797],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-205477","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-article","document-category-news-item","document-source-united-nations-office-for-project-services-unops","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-peace-process","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/205477","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\/205477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=205477"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=205477"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=205477"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=205477"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=205477"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=205477"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=205477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}