{"id":196686,"date":"2005-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=196686"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:15:33","slug":"auto-insert-196686","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-196686\/","title":{"rendered":"SecGen-Abbas meeting\/Special Envoy report on Lebanon &#8211; Noon Briefing &#8211; Spokesman&#8217;s Office (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"5px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPOKESMAN&#39;S NOON BRIEFING<\/strong><\/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>BY STEPHANE DUJARRIC<br \/>\nASSOCIATE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL<\/strong><\/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>UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK<\/strong><\/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>Wednesday, March 2, 2005<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\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;\">&#160;<strong>ANNAN MEETS WITH PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT IN LONDON<\/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;\">The Secretary-General ended his one-day trip to London last night by meeting with the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. <br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">They agreed on the importance of following through on the important agreements reached at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/sg\/sgstats.asp?nid=1329\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>London Conference<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;held earlier that day. 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ENVOY TO RETURN TO LEBANON BEFORE SUBMITTING REPORT<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">: Asked when UN Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen would return to Lebanon, the Spokesman said that Roed-Larsen was expected to go back to the region before he submits his report on the implementation of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/764DC777BFC4307E85256F08005098BF.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">resolution 1559<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;in April.<\/span><\/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=\"text-align:center;padding-top:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>&#160;<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&#160;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&#160;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General<br \/>\nÂ鶹APP, S-378<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10017<br \/>\nTel. 212-963-7162 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>&nbsp;press\/media only<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\nFax. 212-963-7055<\/span><\/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>All other inquiries to be addressed to (212) 963-4475 or by e-mail to: inquiries@un.org<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPOKESMAN&#39;S NOON BRIEFING BY STEPHANE DUJARRIC ASSOCIATE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Wednesday, March 2, 2005 &#8230; &#160;ANNAN MEETS WITH PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT IN LONDON The Secretary-General ended his one-day trip to London last night by meeting with the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. &#160; They agreed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-196686\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2573],"document-source":[5352,1981,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1749,1797,1965],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-196686","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-special-envoy-secco-resolution-1559-2004","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-situation-in-lebanon","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/196686","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\/196686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=196686"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=196686"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=196686"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=196686"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=196686"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=196686"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=196686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}