{"id":198668,"date":"2004-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=198668"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:38:42","slug":"auto-insert-198668","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-198668\/","title":{"rendered":"SecCo to discuss Mideast draft resolution &#8211; Spokesman&#8217;s Office noon briefing ( excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"5px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPOKESMAN&#39;S NOON BRIEFING<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>BY FRED ECKHARD<br \/>\nSPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS<\/p>\n<p>UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Tuesday, October 5, 2004<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:12px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<strong>SECURITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS DRAFT RESOLUTION ON MIDDLE EAST<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">At 4:00 p.m., the Security Council has scheduled closed consultations on the Middle East, with a view to holding a formal meeting afterwards.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Up for discussion is a draft resolution on the Middle East, which is in &#8220;blue&#8221; &#8211; the form that can be voted upon.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about the team from the United Nations that is going to look into the allegations, the Spokesman said that the team would be leaving New York tonight. He said the team, led by Geir Pedersen, Director of the Asia and Middle East Division of the Department of Political Affairs, had intended to go to the region anyway, to review UN operations, but would now investigate the allegations.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">He added that the team would include Pedersen, Susan Allee as the senior official from the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and two other people.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about the UN&#8217;s reaction following news that Israel had pulled its display of its video of the incident, the Spokesman said the United Nations had based its assertion that the object being handled was a stretcher on its own view of the videotape.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The UN assessment of what the tape showed, he said, was that the object could not be a missile, given its lightness &#8211; it was carried by a UN employee in one hand &#8211; and the fact that it had been thrown into the vehicle, rather than being handled more gingerly.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman&#8217;s comments that the United Nations hires terrorists, the Spokesman replied, &#8220;We don&#8217;t hire terrorists.&#8221; He said that the United Nations does not tolerate any militant activity of any kind by its staff, whether in Gaza or anywhere else in the world. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:12px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General<br \/>\nUnited Nations, S-378<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10017<br \/>\nTel. 212-963-7162 &#8211;<strong>&nbsp;press\/media only<\/strong><br \/>\nFax. 212-963-7055<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;padding-top:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>All other inquiries to be addressed to (212) 963-4475 or by e-mail to: inquiries@un.or<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/ossg\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>g<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPOKESMAN&#39;S NOON BRIEFING BY FRED ECKHARD SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Tuesday, October 5, 2004 &#8230; 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