{"id":204134,"date":"2006-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204134"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:43:07","slug":"auto-insert-204134","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204134\/","title":{"rendered":"FM Lavrov speaks to PA President Abbas about PLC elections &#8211; Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry press release\/Non-UN document (excerpts)"},"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\/161f779aeb57722485257106007682c3_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:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\nUnofficial translation from Russian<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:13px;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>PRESS RELEASE <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;padding-top:13px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov Speaks to Head of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas by Telephone<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-top:13px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">101-29-01-2006<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:13px;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\nA telephone conversation took place on January 28 between Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and Head of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:13px;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The conversation focused on the results of the first Palestinian Legislative Council elections in a decade, which became an important event in the life of the Palestinian people on the path of strengthening power structures and forming statehood in accordance with the provisions of the Road Map. In this context it was stressed that the democratically expressed will of the Palestinian people must be respected. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:13px;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Minister backed up the PNA Head&#39;s adherence to a political settlement with Israel, and orientation towards carrying out necessary reforms in various fields in the Palestinian territories. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:13px;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">It was especially noted that all participants in the Palestinian electoral process should adhere to political ways of the realization of the internationally recognized national aspirations of the Palestinian people, which presupposes a renunciation of terror and violence, and the coexistence of an independent, democratic Palestine in peace and security with Israel. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:13px;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Palestinian leader thanked the Minister for the words of support, and affirmed the invariability of his line on a quest for negotiated solutions to the tasks facing the Palestinians. Mahmoud Abbas voiced readiness to continue close engagement with Russia both in advancing the peace process and in strengthening Palestinian-Russian bilateral relations. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-top:13px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:13pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\nJanuary 29, 2006<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/counter.rambler.ru\/top100\/\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><\/a><\/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; PRESS RELEASE Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov Speaks to Head of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas by Telephone&nbsp; 101-29-01-2006&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204134\/\"> [&#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":[2065,5407,2741],"entity":[1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-204134","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-russian-federation","document-category-press-release","document-subject-electoral-issues","document-subject-self-government-area-developments","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204134","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\/204134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=204134"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=204134"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=204134"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=204134"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=204134"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=204134"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=204134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}