{"id":295471,"date":"2024-04-22T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=295471"},"modified":"2024-04-26T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:56:52","slug":"statement-attributable-to-the-spokesperson-for-the-secretary-general-on-the-unrwa-independent-review","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/statement-attributable-to-the-spokesperson-for-the-secretary-general-on-the-unrwa-independent-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General &#8211; on the UNRWA Independent Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"date-display-single\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">22 April 2024<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"field field-name-field_statement_of\">St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General<\/h4>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The Secretary-General expresses his gratitude and appreciation to Ms. Catherine Colonna, who on Saturday submitted to him her Final Report as Chair of the Independent Review Group on the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), entitled \u201cIndependent review of mechanisms and procedures to ensure adherence by UNRWA to the humanitarian principle of neutrality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General is also grateful to the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, the Chr. Michelsen Institute, and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, for the essential research that they conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General accepts the recommendations contained in Ms. Colonna&#8217;s report. \u00a0He has agreed with Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini that UNRWA, with the Secretary-General\u2019s support, will establish\u00a0an action plan to implement the recommendations contained in the Final Report.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the Secretary-General counts on the cooperation of the donor community, the host countries and the staff to fully cooperate in the implementation of the recommendations.\u00a0 Moving forward, the Secretary-General appeals to all stakeholders to actively support UNRWA, as it is a lifeline for Palestine refugees in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 April 2024 St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General The Secretary-General expresses his gratitude and appreciation to Ms. Catherine Colonna, who on Saturday submitted to him her Final Report as Chair of the Independent Review Group on the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), entitled \u201cIndependent review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/statement-attributable-to-the-spokesperson-for-the-secretary-general-on-the-unrwa-independent-review\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1338],"document-source":[5352,1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2005,5200,2117,6891],"entity":[],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-295471","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-statement","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-terrorism","document-subject-unrwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/295471","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\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/295471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295486,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/295471\/revisions\/295486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=295471"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=295471"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=295471"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=295471"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=295471"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=295471"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=295471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}