{"id":232251,"date":"2020-02-11T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=232251"},"modified":"2020-02-12T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:02:04","slug":"daily-press-briefing-state-of-palestine-president-abbas-call-to-expand-the-quartet-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/daily-press-briefing-state-of-palestine-president-abbas-call-to-expand-the-quartet-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Press Briefing \u2013 State of Palestine President Abbas&#8217; Call to Expand the Quartet (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>11 FEBRUARY 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>**<u>Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n<p><em>Voil\u00e0.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Sir?<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 We just had the Palestinian President, [Mahmoud] Abbas, in the Security Council.\u00a0 One of the things he said is\u2026 he was calling for an expansion of the Middle East Quartet.\u00a0 He says it can take on board other countries, and that can be the mechanism for future talks.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fact\u2011check.\u00a0 Is he right about that? \u00a0Can the Quartet be expanded with other country members?<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Well, I mean, the Quartet represents four entities.\u00a0 That would be a discussion that will be had\u2026 have to be had at the Quartet level.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 FEBRUARY 2020 The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. \/&#8230; **Questions and Answers Voil\u00e0.\u00a0\u00a0Sir? Question:\u00a0 Thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 We just had the Palestinian President, [Mahmoud] Abbas, in the Security Council.\u00a0 One of the things he said is\u2026 he was calling for an expansion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/daily-press-briefing-state-of-palestine-president-abbas-call-to-expand-the-quartet-excerpts\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[1593,2553],"document-category":[2573],"document-source":[2329,5352,6169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2073,1638],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-232251","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-palestine-state-of","country-united-states-of-america","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-quartet","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-subject-peace-building","document-subject-quartet","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/232251","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\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/232251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=232251"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=232251"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=232251"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=232251"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=232251"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=232251"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=232251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}