  {"id":212921,"date":"2000-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=212921"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:31:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:31:33","slug":"auto-insert-212921","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-212921\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s temporary membership at the UN&#8217;s Western European and Other Groups &#8211; SecGen statement &#8211; Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>SECRETARY-GENERAL SALUTES GROUP&#39;S DECISION TO ADMIT ISRAEL<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong><u>AS TEMPORARY MEMBER<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>I was pleased to learn of the decision of the Western European and Others Group to admit Israel as a temporary member.&nbsp;&nbsp;This step rectifies a long-standing anomaly.&nbsp;&nbsp;It should pave the way for Israel to participate on an equal footing with other nations in the main organs of the Âé¶¹APP, and it upholds the principle, enshrined in the Charter, of equality among all Member States.&nbsp;&nbsp;This decision is particularly welcome at a time when all people of goodwill are hoping for early and decisive progress in the Middle East peace process.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">* *** *<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SECRETARY-GENERAL SALUTES GROUP&#39;S DECISION TO ADMIT ISRAEL AS TEMPORARY MEMBER The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: I was pleased to learn of the decision of the Western European and Others Group to admit Israel as a temporary member.&nbsp;&nbsp;This step rectifies a long-standing anomaly.&nbsp;&nbsp;It should pave the way for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-212921\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[1329,3205,1338],"document-source":[5352,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2001,2185],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-212921","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-press-release","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-credentials","document-subject-legal-issues","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/212921","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\/212921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=212921"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=212921"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=212921"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=212921"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=212921"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=212921"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=212921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}