{"id":183510,"date":"2006-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=183510"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:33:50","slug":"auto-insert-183510","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-183510\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-finding mission on Beit Hanoun attack not dispatched – GA 10th emergency special session – SecGen letter to GA President"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Letter dated 21 December 2006 from the Secretary-General <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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to the President of the General Assembly <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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  I am writing to inform you of my efforts to implement <\/span>General Assembly resolution ES-10\/16<\/a>. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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  It has been 34 days since the General Assembly adopted resolution ES-10\/16 on 17 November 2006, in which it requested me, in operative paragraph 3, to “establish a fact-finding mission on the attack that took place in Beit Hanoun on 8 November 2006 and to report thereon to the General Assembly within thirty days”. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  On that basis, on 1 December, I designated Staffan de Mistura, Director of the United Nations System Staff College, to lead the fact-finding mission. He was to be supported by a small team, as well as by security and general support staff. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  I instructed that the team should gather no later than 13 December 2006 and carry out its assignment in accordance with the terms of reference that I had approved. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  The Secretariat accordingly informed, in detail, the Permanent Missions of Israel and Palestine on both 1 December and 5 December 2006 and requested that the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, respectively, extend their cooperation to the fact-finding mission. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  The Permanent Observer of Palestine communicated the agreement of the Palestinian Authority to extend its cooperation to the team. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  However, as of today, the Government of Israel has not yet indicated whether it would extend the necessary cooperation to the mission. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  For this reason I regret that I was unable to dispatch the fact-finding mission and report to the General Assembly about the events that occurred in Beit Hanoun on 8 November 2006, as mandated in resolution ES-10\/16. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  I would be grateful if you could bring the present letter to the attention of the members of the General Assembly. <\/p><\/div>\n

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(Signed<\/i>) Kofi A. Annan<\/strong> <\/p><\/div>\n

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