{"id":254159,"date":"2021-06-15T18:39:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T22:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=254159"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T22:39:51","slug":"ceasefire-in-gaza-israeli-flag-day-march-15-june-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ceasefire-in-gaza-israeli-flag-day-march-15-june-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli Flag Day March \u2013 15 June 2021 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 JUNE 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Oh, thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 I am reading the tweet by Mr.\u00a0Tor [Wennesland].\u00a0 He wrote today, \u201cTensions are rising again in Jerusalem.\u201d \u00a0\u201cTension are rising.\u201d I want to ask you, does tension rise by itself?\u00a0 How does tension rise?\u00a0 How does it rise?<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 [inaudible]\u2026<\/p>\n

Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Can\u2019t hear you.<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 \u2026that we have almost every day is the highlight of this briefing for me, but I\u2019m not going to get into the linguistics.\u00a0 I think we all know very well what Mr.\u00a0Wennesland means.<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Wennesland is concerned at the fact that we have a ceasefire that is not that old.\u00a0 We need to do\u2026 \u00a0the parties need to do everything possible to try to avoid provocation, to try to avoid tensions rising in order to solidify the end of this current cycle of violence, and he was expressing his concern in that regard.<\/p>\n

Question<\/u>:\u00a0 So, he also continues to say about provocations and urge all relevant parties to act responsibly and avoid any provocations.\u00a0 Is the mar\u2026 Israeli Flag Day march is a kind of provocation or not?\u00a0 Who is \u201cprovocating\u201d and who\u2026<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 I think Mr.\u00a0Wennesland\u2019s tweet speaks for himself.\u00a0 If we have anything more to say on today events, I will share that with you.<\/p>\n

Question<\/u>:\u00a0 When he puts both sides, St\u00e9phane, the occupier and occupied, on the same footing, is that fair?\u00a0 That\u2019s my question.\u00a0 Anyone who reads this message, he will think that there are two equal parties.\u00a0 [cross talk]<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 If you want\u2026 nobody\u2019s asking you to read it that way.\u00a0 What is clear is that we have an area in which there are tensions, in which there are\u2026 we\u2019ve seen very violent conflict not too long ago, where there\u2019s always a risk of conflict.\u00a0 And what is important is that those who have the power to make things better or to make things worse exercise that power responsibly in order to make things better.<\/p>\n

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

15 JUNE 2021 The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. \/… Questions and Answers \/… Question:\u00a0 Oh, thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 I am reading the tweet by Mr.\u00a0Tor [Wennesland].\u00a0 He wrote today, \u201cTensions are rising again in Jerusalem.\u201d \u00a0\u201cTension are rising.\u201d I want to ask you, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2573],"document-source":[5352,6169,1877],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2265,2005,1857,1961,2385,6245],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-254159","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-source-united-nations-special-coordinator-for-the-middle-east-peace-process-unsco","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-jerusalem","document-subject-security-issues","document-subject-violence","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/254159","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\/254159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=254159"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=254159"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=254159"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=254159"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=254159"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=254159"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=254159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}