{"id":205697,"date":"2003-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=205697"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:01:50","slug":"auto-insert-205697","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205697\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation in the OPT\/Lebanon &#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:14pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;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 \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>BY FRED ECKHARD<br \/>\nSPOKESMAN 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, September 4, 2003<\/strong><\/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;\">\/&#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 EMPHASIZED IMPORTANCE OF ROAD MAP FOR MIDDLE EAST<\/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;\">In a message to a meeting organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the Secretary-General said that the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/6129B9C832FE59AB85256D43004D87FA.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Road Map<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, if fully and fairly implemented, remains the best way to reach an independent and viable Palestinian state.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">In the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/ED91248B39DC032285256D9700695285.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">message<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, which was delivered by Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Kieran Prendergast, the Secretary-General went on to say that the renewed cycle of deadly violence must not be allowed to divert us from the Road Map. The whole international community must strengthen its efforts to help both parties stay the course, he added.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Secretary-General highlighted the importance of the role of Palestinian and Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in building bridges of trust and understanding between ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, laying the ground work for mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and cooperation.\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked whether the Secretary-General had been in contact with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, who had recently said the Road Map was &#8220;dead,&#8221; the Spokesman said he had not. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>UN MISSION IN LEBANON REPORTS OVER-FLIGHTS, FIRING ACROSS BLUE LINE<\/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;\">On Wednesday afternoon, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reported that Israeli jets crossed the Blue Line into south Lebanon, generating sonic booms. Hizbollah responded to the air incursions with anti-aircraft rounds fired across the line, igniting an agricultural field.\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Some hours later there was additional anti-aircraft fire that did not cross the Blue Line, shortly after which two Israeli jets flew deep into UNIFIL&#39;s area of operation and dropped several bombs on a Hizbollah position adjacent to the village of Al Bayyadah, near a UN position. These bombs set fire to the position and damaged a number of buildings in the vicinity. There were no casualties reported on either side.\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The UNIFIL Force Commander, Maj. Gen. Lalit Mohan Tewari, expressed his deep concern about the air raid. Today, the area is reported as quiet. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\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;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;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<\/p><\/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 Thursday, September 4, 2003 \/&#8230; ANNAN EMPHASIZED IMPORTANCE OF ROAD MAP FOR MIDDLE EAST In a message to a meeting organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205697\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1587],"document-source":[5352],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1857,1805],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-205697","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-note","document-source-secretary-general","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-occupation","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/205697","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\/205697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=205697"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=205697"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=205697"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=205697"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=205697"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=205697"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=205697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}