{"id":249041,"date":"2021-03-31T14:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=249041"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:50:02","slug":"distribution-of-covid-vaccine-in-opt-31-march-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/distribution-of-covid-vaccine-in-opt-31-march-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Distribution of Covid Vaccine in oPt \u2013 31 March 2021 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>31 MARCH 2021<\/strong><\/h6>\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>Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 My second question, I recently asked your Deputy Spokesman Mr.\u00a0Haq about Israeli role in distributing the vaccine to the Palestinian, and he thanked Israel for their cooperation.\u00a0 The same day, which was Friday, not this Friday, the one before, the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued a statement criticizing Israel and calling on Israel to live up to its responsibilities.\u00a0 And, in particular, they criticized Israel for selling vaccines or distributing it freely for some of their allies.\u00a0 So, the same day Farhan Haq thanked Israel, and the same day the UN committee criticized Israel.\u00a0 Whom do I believe? \u00a0The UN position\u2026<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Look\u2026 Abdelhamid, you know the UN better than me.\u00a0 There are different voices within the Organization.\u00a0 I speak for the Secretary\u2011General, and the Secretariat.\u00a0 The Committee is a committee of Member States.\u00a0 Both have expressed a position.\u00a0 I have nothing to add to what Mr.\u00a0Haq has said.\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 MARCH 2021 The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. \/&#8230; Questions and Answers \/&#8230; Question:\u00a0 My second question, I recently asked your Deputy Spokesman Mr.\u00a0Haq about Israeli role in distributing the vaccine to the Palestinian, and he thanked Israel for their cooperation.\u00a0 The same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/distribution-of-covid-vaccine-in-opt-31-march-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2573],"document-source":[1753,5352,6169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2533],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-249041","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-ceirpp","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-subject-health","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/249041","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\/249041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=249041"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=249041"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=249041"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=249041"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=249041"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=249041"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=249041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}