{"id":220451,"date":"2019-09-10T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=220451"},"modified":"2019-09-13T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:03:28","slug":"daily-press-briefing-israeli-plans-to-annex-settlements-in-the-west-bank-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/daily-press-briefing-israeli-plans-to-annex-settlements-in-the-west-bank-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Press Briefing \u2013 Israeli Plans to Annex Settlements in the West Bank \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmultimedia.org\/tv\/unifeed\/asset\/2444\/2444655\/\">video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s start, then, with election campaign in Israel as the backdrop, but Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu saying that he is going to annex settlements in parts of the West Bank and other strategic areas, he says, in the West Bank.\u00a0 What is the Secretary\u2011General&#8217;s view of this? \u00a0What is his view of it in relation to Security Council resolutions on this issue? \u00a0And does he think this will be a contribution to peace efforts or detrimental to them?<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve seen the statement made by the Prime Minister.\u00a0 The Secretary\u2011General&#8217;s position has always been clear and consistent:\u00a0 Unilateral actions are not helpful in the peace process.\u00a0 Our position today is unchanged and is reflected in relevant UN resolutions.\u00a0 Any Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied West Bank is without any international legal effect.\u00a0 I think such a prospect would be devastating to the potential of reviving negotiations, regional peace and the very essence of a two\u2011State solution.\u00a0 And we do expect a more formal statement a bit later on this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>video The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. \/&#8230; Question:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s start, then, with election campaign in Israel as the backdrop, but Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu saying that he is going to annex settlements in parts of the West Bank and other strategic areas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/daily-press-briefing-israeli-plans-to-annex-settlements-in-the-west-bank-excerpts\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[2573,2805,4389],"document-source":[5352],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2849,2297,1797,2137,2741],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-220451","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-category-video","document-category-webcast","document-source-secretary-general","document-subject-annexation","document-subject-land","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-settlements","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/220451","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\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/220451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=220451"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=220451"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=220451"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=220451"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=220451"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=220451"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=220451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}