{"id":209673,"date":"2006-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209673"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:48:25","slug":"auto-insert-209673","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209673\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden issues invitation to intl. conference on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories &#8211; Swedish 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<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Press release 15 August 2006<br \/>\nMinistry for Foreign Affairs<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:18px;font-size:18pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Sweden issues invitation to an international conference on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Sweden, Spain and Norway will jointly host a conference in Stockholm on 1 September 2006 on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories, focusing especially on Gaza. The conference is being held in close consultation with the United Nations and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Minister for Foreign Affairs Jan Eliasson and Minister for International Development Cooperation Carin J&#228;mtin have invited a large number of countries and international organisations to participate in the conference.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;At the same time as the eyes of the world are rightly directed towards the ongoing crisis in Lebanon, we must not forget the situation in the West Bank and Gaza. The humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is deteriorating all the time. The human suffering in Gaza especially is getting worse by the day,&quot; says Minister for International Development Cooperation Carin J&#228;mtin.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The conference will primarily focus on humanitarian relief, humanitarian access and early recovery. It is a follow-up to a meeting with the same focus held in Geneva on 14 July 2006.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8212;-<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The conference will be held in Stockholm on Friday 1 September, the day after the international conference on Lebanon. This is in order to facilitate the participation of countries and organisations proposing to attend both conferences.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:15px;font-size:15pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\"><i>John Zanchi<br \/>\nPress Secretary to Carin J&#228;mtin<br \/>\nwork +46 8 405 59 39<br \/>\ncell +46 70 2602664<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.gov.se\/pub\/road\/Classic\/article\/117\/jsp\/Render.jsp?a=15955&amp;m=popup&amp;l=en\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\"><i>email to John Zanchi<\/i><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\"><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\"><i>Kerstin Olsson<br \/>\nPress Secretary to Jan Eliasson<br \/>\nwork +46 70 272 34 06<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.gov.se\/pub\/road\/Classic\/article\/117\/jsp\/Render.jsp?a=62592&amp;m=popup&amp;l=en\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\"><i>email to Kerstin Olsson<\/i><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang, serif;\"><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release 15 August 2006 Ministry for Foreign Affairs Sweden issues invitation to an international conference on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories Sweden, Spain and Norway will jointly host a conference in Stockholm on 1 September 2006 on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories, focusing especially on Gaza. 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