{"id":201431,"date":"2003-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=201431"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:10:19","slug":"auto-insert-201431","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-201431\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Special Coordinator urges end to Mideast cycle of retaliation – UN news item"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Syria's decision to use diplomacy instead of retaliation is wise – UN envoy<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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9 October <\/i><\/span>– <\/i><\/span>The senior Â鶹APP envoy for the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, said today all parties to the Middle East conflict should allow the international community to work out a solution, instead of taking the kind of unilateral action that has brought a complete standstill to diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Repeating in Damascus the advice he had given in Beirut yesterday that the parties stop the cycle of retaliation, Mr. Roed-Larsen, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told reporters attacks and counter-attacks were leading the region down a steep and precarious path toward more violence. <\/p><\/div>\n

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On Sunday Israeli forces crossed Lebanese airspace and struck an area that Israel said was a training-camp for militants deep inside Syria as retaliation for a suicide bombing in Israel on Saturday. An assault on Monday from Lebanese territory across the Blue Line marking the Israeli line of withdrawal killed an Israeli soldier. <\/p><\/div>\n

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"I am here today at a critical juncture," Mr. Roed-Larsen said after his meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Foreign Minister Faruk El-Shara'a. "It has never been more urgent to re-establish momentum towards a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. However, as you all know, the trend of events is increasingly in the opposite direction." <\/p><\/div>\n

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He said the Syrian Government had made a wise decision to present its case to the Security Council. <\/p><\/div>\n

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On the second leg of a regional tour that took him to Lebanon and will take him to Jordan, Mr. Roed-Larsen said: "The Israeli action was fraught with danger. By disturbing a front that has been stable for years, it risks having unpredictable and destabilizing consequences for the whole region, already rife with complex conflicts."<\/p><\/div>\n

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