{"id":199590,"date":"2011-12-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=199590"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:57:54","slug":"auto-insert-199590","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-199590\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine admitted as UNESCO member – SecGen press conference at UNHQ (14 Dec. 2011) – Transcript (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Department of Public Information \u2022 News and Media Division \u2022 New York<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\u2019s press conference, held in New York on 14 December:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With the help of the Quartet, we must continue to push for peace between Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Question:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Thank you, Mr. Secretary-General.\u00a0\u00a0Now that Palestine has been officially admitted as a member of UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]; I believe its flag was raised the other day.\u00a0\u00a0And this was followed by a cut-off of funding for UNESCO by the United States, and the Palestinians are also still seeking full UN membership.\u00a0\u00a0You have expressed some concerns in the past regarding further efforts by the Palestinians to seek membership in other UN bodies, if that would have an adverse impact on funding.\u00a0\u00a0Do you still have such concerns going forward?\u00a0\u00a0And if so, have you communicated those concerns with Palestinian authorities?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Secretary-General:<\/strong>\u00a0We have to look at this issue in a different angle.\u00a0\u00a0Admission of Palestinians into the United Nations is a separate one.\u00a0\u00a0I support their aspirations to be admitted into the United Nations and to be able to work in other international organizations as a full member within the context of the two-State vision where Israel and Palestinians can live together side by side in peace and security.\u00a0\u00a0Then the funding gap, which has been caused by the US cutting this funding over the case of admission into UNESCO; that is another matter.\u00a0\u00a0As the Secretary-General of the United Nations, I hope and I am working very hard that all the United Nations agencies should be able to operate with adequate funding, adequate resources to deliver to those people who need our help.\u00a0\u00a0That is my concern.\u00a0\u00a0That is my concern, that UNESCO will have a shortage of funding.\u00a0\u00a0I have been expressing this concern to world leaders, whomever I met, so that we would be able to find some practical mechanisms where we can address this shortage of funding.\u00a0\u00a0So these are separate issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  Secretary-General SG\/SM\/14021   Department of Public Information \u2022 News and Media Division \u2022 New York   SG\/SM\/14021 PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS   Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\u2019s press conference, held in New York on 14 December:   \/…   With the help of the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1699,1869],"document-source":[5352,1897,2497],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1797,1638,2741],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-199590","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-conference","document-category-transcript","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-source-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-quartet","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/199590","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\/33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/199590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317995,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/199590\/revisions\/317995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=199590"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=199590"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=199590"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=199590"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=199590"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=199590"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=199590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}