  {"id":208984,"date":"2013-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=208984"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:40:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:40:28","slug":"auto-insert-208984","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-208984\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland upgrades status of Palestinian mission &#8211; Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Press Releases, 9\/4\/2013<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>The status of the Palestinian mission in Finland is revised<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:7px;font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Press Release 185\/2013<br \/>\n4 September 2013<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Foreign Minister <strong>Erkki Tuomioja <\/strong>and Ambassador <strong>Nabil D.M. Alwazir <\/strong>signed an agreement on the status of the Palestinian mission in Helsinki on 4 September. The agreement grants the Palestinian mission and its staff the privileges and immunities laid down in the Vienna Convention regulating diplomatic relations.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The upgrading of the Palestinian mission is based on an agreement made by the Nordic countries that the status of Palestinian missions in all of the Nordic countries would be as uniform as possible.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Finland also wants to support the Palestinian state-building efforts and to encourage the continuation of talks with Israel, started under the leadership of President <strong>Mahmoud Abbas<\/strong>, in order to achieve a two-state solution.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Upgrading the status of the mission does not signify the recognition of the Palestinian state.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Additional information: Helena Tuuri, Head of the Unit for the Middle East and North Africa, mobile tel. +358 50 527 5409, Tero Shemeikka, Press Attach&#233; to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, mobile tel. +358 40 515 109<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>doclink: <\/i><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finland.org\/public\/default.aspx?contentid=282906&amp;nodeid=40958&amp;contentlan=2&amp;culture=en-US\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>http:\/\/www.finland.org\/public\/default.aspx?contentid=282906&amp;nodeid=40958&amp;contentlan=2&amp;culture=en-US<\/i><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Releases, 9\/4\/2013 The status of the Palestinian mission in Finland is revised Press Release 185\/2013 4 September 2013 Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja and Ambassador Nabil D.M. 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