{"id":203203,"date":"2012-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=203203"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:31:46","slug":"auto-insert-203203","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-203203\/","title":{"rendered":"UNCTAD XIII (Doha, April 2012) &#8211; Panel Discussion: Sustaining the Palestinian economy under occupation &#8211; The role of Arab cooperation &#8211; Pre-conference press release"},"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<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\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%27485%27%20height%3D%27100%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20485%20100%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27485%27%20height%3D%27100%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/951cc281607e95ef852579e50052d30f_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"100px\" width=\"485px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Panel Discussion: Sustaining the Palestinian economy under occupation &#8211; 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The meeting will be webcast with excerpts posted on the UNCTAD website and available to download as podcasts. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Organization<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Panel discussion is conducted as an interactive dialogue where the issues will be examined from the perspective of four panellists before the discussion is opened up to questions and comments by delegates. 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