{"id":208353,"date":"2007-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=208353"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:33:42","slug":"auto-insert-208353","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-208353\/","title":{"rendered":"SecGen calls for immediate, unconditional release of BBC journalist abducted in Gaza – SecGen statement – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE, UNCONDITIONAL<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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RELEASE OF ABDUCTED BBC JOURNALIST ALAN JOHNSTON<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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The following statement was issued today by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:<\/p><\/div>\n

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As Secretary-General of the United Nations, I have been closely following the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston.  I am deeply concerned.  Even after one month of his abduction, he has not been released.  His coverage of Palestinian issues has earned a great reputation worldwide.  Freedom of coverage, as well as freedom of the press, should be protected as a matter of principle.  I sincerely hope that those who are responsible for this abduction release him unconditionally and immediately.  I will do whatever I can in my capacity as Secretary-General.  My sympathy is with the family of Alan Johnston.  I wish him well.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Secretary-General SG\/SM\/10941 Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE, UNCONDITIONAL   RELEASE OF ABDUCTED BBC JOURNALIST ALAN JOHNSTON   The following statement was issued today by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: As Secretary-General of the United Nations, I have been closely following the abduction of BBC journalist […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2433,1329,3205,1338],"document-source":[5352,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,1857,2145],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542,6541],"class_list":["post-208353","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-french-text","document-category-press-release","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-public-information","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english","document-language-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/208353","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\/208353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=208353"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=208353"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=208353"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=208353"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=208353"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=208353"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=208353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}