{"id":210199,"date":"2005-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=210199"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:54:05","slug":"auto-insert-210199","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-210199\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Presidency statements on Lebanon at European Parliament plenary session &#8211; EU press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"5px\" \/>\n<\/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:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>Press Release<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>Nicolas Schmit at the plenary session of the European Parliament: The Non-Proliferation Treaty and Lebanon<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Date of release : 08-03-2005<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Policy area :&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><u>General Affairs and External Relations<\/u><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Event : <u>European Parliament plenary session<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">During the plenary session of the European Parliament on 8 March, Nicolas Schmit, Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs and Immigration, pronounced&#160; two Presidency statements on the review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and on the situation in Lebanon. Nicolas Schmit also met Bulgaria&#8217;s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Salomon Passy.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">In the Presidency&#8217;s statement on the situation in Lebanon, Nicolas Schmit informed the European Parliament that &quot;the Council is continuing to closely monitor with concern the serious political crisis that Lebanon is experiencing [&#8230;] which culminated in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 18 other innocent civilians.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;The Union has strongly condemned this act of barbarism [&#8230;]. The resignation of the Karame Government, under pressure from the people, is creating a new situation and it is important to make the most of it.&quot; The Minister assured the European Parliament that the Council would do everything in its power to work towards a satisfactory solution to the problems in Lebanon.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release Nicolas Schmit at the plenary session of the European Parliament: The Non-Proliferation Treaty and Lebanon Date of release : 08-03-2005 Policy area :&nbsp;&nbsp;General Affairs and External Relations Event : European Parliament plenary session During the plenary session of the European Parliament on 8 March, Nicolas Schmit, Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs and Immigration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-210199\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[2505],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1813,1965],"entity":[1889],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-210199","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-european-union-eu","document-subject-middle-east-situation","document-subject-situation-in-lebanon","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/210199","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\/210199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=210199"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=210199"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=210199"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=210199"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=210199"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=210199"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=210199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}