{"id":201685,"date":"2005-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=201685"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:13:17","slug":"auto-insert-201685","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-201685\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Palestine question &#8211; Russian MFA commentary on PA decision to postpone Parliamanetary elections &#8211; Russian Foreign Ministry press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"12%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"text-align:center;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27100%27%20height%3D%27121%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20100%20121%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27100%27%20height%3D%27121%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/f0d240aede82343c8525701b005070d9_image0.JPG\" border=\"0\" height=\"121px\" width=\"100px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"87%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000080;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color:#800000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong><br \/>\nINFORMATION AND PRESS DEPARTMENT<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n_______________________________<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n32\/34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya pl., 119200, Moscow G-200; tel.: (095) 244 4119, fax: 244 4112 <br \/>\ne-mail: dip@mid.ru<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>,<\/u><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;web-address: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid.ru\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">www.mid.ru<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\nUnofficial translation from Russian<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;padding-top:12px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>Russian MFA Information and Press Department Commentary Regarding Decision by Palestinian National Authority to Postpone Parliamentary Elections<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\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;\">\nOn June 4 the Head of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, issued a decree postponing the election for the Palestinian Legislative Council, which was scheduled for July 17, citing the necessity to carry through electoral reform before the voting. A new date for balloting will be set later after the adoption of a number of legislative procedures being discussed by the Palestinians, including amending the current election law of 1995. <\/p><\/div>\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;\">Moscow regards this decision with understanding. We presume that free and transparent parliamentary elections, held within the constitutional framework, will constitute an important step towards democratic reforms in the PNA, towards ensuring a normal life, stability and the rule of law in the Palestinian territories and exert a positive influence on Palestinian-Israeli settlement. <\/p><\/div>\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;\">Russia will continue to assist the PNA with the formation of Palestinian statehood in the interests of creating an independent state coexisting with Israel in peace and security. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;padding-top:12px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\nJune 6, 2005<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION INFORMATION AND PRESS DEPARTMENT _______________________________ 32\/34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya pl., 119200, Moscow G-200; tel.: (095) 244 4119, fax: 244 4112 e-mail: dip@mid.ru,&nbsp;web-address: www.mid.ru Unofficial translation from Russian&nbsp; Russian MFA Information and Press Department Commentary Regarding Decision by Palestinian National Authority to Postpone Parliamentary Elections&nbsp; On June 4 the Head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-201685\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[1074],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2065,1749],"entity":[1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-201685","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-russian-federation","document-category-press-release","document-subject-electoral-issues","document-subject-palestine-question","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/201685","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\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/201685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=201685"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=201685"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=201685"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=201685"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=201685"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=201685"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=201685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}