{"id":207259,"date":"2008-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=207259"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:20:50","slug":"auto-insert-207259","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-207259\/","title":{"rendered":"SecGen says Gazans should not be punished &#8211; Highlights of noon briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for SecGen (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=\"top\" 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:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:16pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING<\/strong><\/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>BY FARHAN HAQ<br \/>\nASSOCIATE SPOKESPERSON FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON<\/strong><\/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>UN HEADQUARTERS,&#160; NEW YORK<\/strong><\/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>Wednesday, February 6, 2008<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;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:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>SECRETARY-GENERAL: GAZANS SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about developments in Gaza, the Spokesperson referred to the Secretary-General&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/9BA78156553794A0852573E6006C3B63.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">comments<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">yesterday, in which he said that, while he understood Israel&#8217;s security concerns, the people of Gaza should not be punished. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about the Secretary-General&#8217;s meeting on Tuesday with the Arab Group, the Spokesperson said the meeting had been called at the Arab Group&#39;s request. They raised the issues they wanted to discuss, including Gaza, and the Secretary-General listened. Asked about the Security Council&#8217;s inability to adopt a Presidential Statement on Gaza, Haq said the Security Council&#8217;s decisions were its own business. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked if Gaza was considered by the UN to be &#8220;occupied,&#8221; the Spokesperson said Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were still considered by the UN as the &#8220;occupied Palestinian territory.&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\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=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, 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>Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General<br \/>\nÂ鶹APP, S-378<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10017<br \/>\nTel. 212-963-7162<br \/>\nFax. 212-963-7055<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING BY FARHAN HAQ ASSOCIATE SPOKESPERSON FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON UN HEADQUARTERS,&#160; NEW YORK Wednesday, February 6, 2008 \/&#8230; SECRETARY-GENERAL: GAZANS SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED Asked about developments in Gaza, the Spokesperson referred to the Secretary-General&#8217;s comments&nbsp;yesterday, in which he said that, while he understood Israel&#8217;s security concerns, the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-207259\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2197,2573],"document-source":[5352,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,1805],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-207259","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-briefing","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-occupation","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/207259","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\/207259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=207259"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=207259"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=207259"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=207259"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=207259"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=207259"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=207259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}