{"id":250119,"date":"2021-04-23T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=250119"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:24:47","slug":"incidents-in-jerusalem-new-executive-director-of-the-office-of-the-un-register-of-damage-caused-by-the-construction-of-the-wall-in-the-opt-14-april-2021-daily-press-briefing-excer","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/incidents-in-jerusalem-new-executive-director-of-the-office-of-the-un-register-of-damage-caused-by-the-construction-of-the-wall-in-the-opt-14-april-2021-daily-press-briefing-excer\/","title":{"rendered":"Incidents in Jerusalem, New Executive Director of the Office of the UN Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the OPT\u2013 14 April 2021 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>23 APRIL 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>Senior Personnel Appointments<\/u><\/p>\n<p>A couple of senior personnel appointments:<\/p>\n<p>One, the Secretary-General is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2021\/sga2035.doc.htm\">appointing Leonid Frolov<\/a>\u00a0of the Russian Federation as Executive Director of the Office of the UN Register of Damage caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory \u2014 that is the official name.<\/p>\n<p>He succeeds our friend Vladimir Goryayev of the Russian Federation, who retired in 2020.\u00a0 The Secretary-General is grateful for Mr.\u00a0Goryayev\u2019s leadership of the Register of Damage and his dedicated service to the Â鶹APP for over three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\u00a0Frolov has served since 2017 as Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the State of Israel.\u00a0 He previously served in the Foreign Service of the Russian Federation since 1994.\u00a0 We welcome him.\u00a0 More information is being sent out in a note.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 I was expecting that you mention what\u2019s going on in Jerusalem.\u00a0 According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, 105\u00a0Palestinians were wounded, some of them in\u2026 still in the hospital, after those Jewish extremists roaming in the streets of Jerusalem, beating Palestinians and destroying their cars.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, Friday, there\u2019s a Palestinian walk to Jerusalem to pray in the al-Aqsa Mosque, and that\u2019s where the confrontation started at the checkpoint, but it went through the streets of Jerusalem.\u00a0 Why there is no mention of these important developments?<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Well, I mean, we\u2019ve, obviously, seen what\u2019s happened overnight, which was part of a pattern of things we have seen since the beginning of Ramadan, and Mr.\u00a0[Tor] Wennesland addressed this directly in his remarks yesterday at the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information media. 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