  {"id":195759,"date":"2007-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195759"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:04:19","slug":"auto-insert-195759","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195759\/","title":{"rendered":"GA General Debate &#8211; Statements &#8211; Press release (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" valign=\"center\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"37%\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"text-align:center;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27102%27%20height%3D%27100%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20102%20100%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27102%27%20height%3D%27100%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/c677989b100614908525736a0067e6c5_image0.JPG\" border=\"0\" height=\"100px\" width=\"102px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"62%\" valign=\"center\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color:#418ecb;text-align:left;font-size:21pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>General Assembly<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#418ecb;text-align:left;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>GA\/10627 <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"text-align:center;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"1px\" color=\"#f79e18\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#418ecb;text-align:center;font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Department of Public Information &#8226; News and Media Division &#8226; New York<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\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:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Sixty-second General Assembly <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Plenary <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">14<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;&amp; 15<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;Meetings (AM &amp; 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