{"id":241314,"date":"2020-10-29T00:58:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T04:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=241314"},"modified":"2020-11-05T01:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:02:50","slug":"settlements-29-oct-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/settlements-29-oct-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlements \u2013 29 Oct. 2020 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
29 OCTOBER 2020<\/strong><\/h6>\n

The following is a near\u2011verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary\u2011General.<\/p>\n

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Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n

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Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 I have two questions on violation of international law, both of them.\u00a0 My first question, the US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, signed a memo with the Israeli authorities lifting the ban on American companies to invest in settlement.\u00a0 So, from yesterday on, American companies can invest in illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.\u00a0 Do you have a statement on that? And have you followed this important flagrant case of violation of international law at a close range?<\/p>\n

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Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0\u00a0On the issue of settlements, our position remains the same and has been referred to in statements by the Secretary\u2011General and by Mr.\u00a0{Nickolay]\u00a0Mladenov.<\/p>\n

So, our…\u00a0 it’s up to you to do the compare\u2011and\u2011contrast.\u00a0 Our positions on, whether it’s on settlements, on Western Sahara, remains unchanged.<\/p>\n

Okay?\u00a0 Yeah, go ahead.<\/p>\n

Question<\/u>:\u00a0 So, you think such a decision by US to lift the ban on investing in settlement is just a matter of just for me to analyse or to…\u00a0 just to repeat the traditional position of the UN, is not worth a separate statement?<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Our position on the illegality of settlements is clear and has been clear for a long time.<\/p>\n

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For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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