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New York, 5 November 2004 – Press Encounter with the Secretary-General outside Room S-226 in the UN Secretariat Building<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Q:<\/span> Mr. Secretary-General, Yassir Arafat is apparently in a coma. I wondered whether you had any thoughts about his importance to the Palestinian cause and…. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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SG:<\/span> I think Chairman Arafat embodied in his person the Palestinian aspirations for the statehood and he has been leader of his people all these years, and obviously, it's going to leave a gap amongst the Palestinians. But I hope, and so far they seem to be handling it well, that the succession will not be a problem. Chairman Arafat is still in hospital. I wish him well, but I think the arrangements they have in place with the Prime Minister Qurei and Mr. Abu Mazen is working well and I hope they will be able to ensure a smooth transition. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Q:<\/span> Do you have a sense that this will jumpstart in any way the Roadmap or present any new options? <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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SG:<\/span> I think when the Quartet met last September, we were hoping and determined to press on with the implementation of the Roadmap, particularly in the new year. And I think that the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and with the changes taking place on the ground, I think we should be able to press ahead with the implementation of the plan. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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New York, 5 November 2004 – Press Encounter with the Secretary-General outside Room S-226 in the UN Secretariat Building … Q: Mr. Secretary-General, Yassir Arafat is apparently in a coma. I wondered whether you had any thoughts about his importance to the Palestinian cause and…. SG: I think Chairman Arafat embodied in his person the Palestinian aspirations for the statehood […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[5352],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1749,1797,1917],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-203572","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-secretary-general","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-situation-in-the-opt-including-jerusalem","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/203572","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\/203572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=203572"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=203572"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=203572"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=203572"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=203572"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=203572"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=203572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}