  {"id":195351,"date":"2007-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195351"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:59:40","slug":"auto-insert-195351","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195351\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Special Coordinator holds talks with Israeli, Palestinian leaders &#8211; UN news item"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>Middle East: UN envoy holds talks with Israeli, Palestinian leaders<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>22 August 2007 <\/i><i>&#8211; <\/i>The Âé¶¹APP Middle East envoy is in Jerusalem today for talks with Israeli and Palestinian political leaders on the need for dialogue between the two sides and to help prepare for a future meeting of the Quartet, the international diplomatic grouping trying to resolve the conflict. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:9px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Michael Williams, UN <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/unsco\/\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>Special Coordinator<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;for the Middle East Peace Process, met Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad today, a day after holding discussions with Israeli Vice Premier Haim Ramon. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Tomorrow he is scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, UN spokesperson Michele Montas told reporters. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Quartet comprising the UN, the European Union, Russia and the United States agreed at a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, last month to meet again in September as part of efforts to &#8220;provide diplomatic support for the parties in their bilateral discussions and negotiations in order to move forward on a successful path to a Palestinian State.&#8221; <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:9px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Ms. Montas said Mr. Williams had also held talks during this trip to the region with officials from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the country&#39;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the implementation of Security Council <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/Docs\/journal\/asp\/ws.asp?m=s\/res\/1701(2006)\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>resolution<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;1701, which ended last year&#39;s war between the IDF and Hizbollah in neighbouring Lebanon.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">* *** *<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East: UN envoy holds talks with Israeli, Palestinian leaders&nbsp; 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