{"id":209799,"date":"2014-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209799"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:49:43","slug":"auto-insert-209799","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209799\/","title":{"rendered":"UN receives Palestinian President Abbas&#8217; letter requesting that an independent investigation be conducted into the death of the Palestinian teen killed last week &#8211; SG&#8217;s Spokesperson&#8217;s noon briefing (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING<br \/>\nBY FARHAN HAQ, DEPUTY SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MONDAY, 7 JULY 2014<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:5px;text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<strong>U.N. ENVOY IN MIDDLE EAST RECEIVED LETTER FROM PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT REQUESTING INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">In response to questions, the Spokesman confirmed that <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unsco.org\/\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>Robert Serry<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, in his capacity as the Secretary-General&#8217;s representative on the ground was handed a letter on Sunday by President Mahmoud Abbas which calls for &#8220;an international and independent investigation into the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir&#8221;. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Haq added that the letter is being transmitted to the Secretary-General, who had not yet seen the letter. The letter would then be evaluated and responded to in due course.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about the violence on the ground, the Spokesman referred to the statements that the Secretary-General has issued, including on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/71BADC805A87DF7E85257D0800473C7E.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">killings of the three Israeli teenagers<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;and of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/15A5D26E4E1EE66985257D0900642B64.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">youth killed in Jerusalem<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;last week.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING BY FARHAN HAQ, DEPUTY SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON MONDAY, 7 JULY 2014 \/&#8230; &#160;U.N. 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