{"id":233816,"date":"2020-03-11T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=233816"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:59:26","slug":"daily-press-briefing-list-of-companies-doing-business-in-the-opt-international-criminal-court-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/daily-press-briefing-list-of-companies-doing-business-in-the-opt-international-criminal-court-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Press Briefing – List of Companies Doing Business in the oPt, International Criminal Court (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 MARCH 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n

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Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I want to go back to the recent meeting between the Secretary\u2011General and [United States] Secretary of State [Michael] Pompeo, and I have two questions flowing from that.\u00a0 As you know, one of the topics that was discussed, at least according to the State Department readout, was the so\u2011called blacklist of firms doing business with Israeli firms in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.\u00a0 I’m wondering what specifically the Secretary\u2011General is doing in response to that, and I have in mind what impact will it have on UN procurement from those businesses listed on that blacklist? \u00a0My second question is, in the readout that your office provided, there was a reference to the Host Country Agreement.\u00a0 Didn’t go into any details.\u00a0 I’m just wondering whether the issue of potentially barring the issuance of visas to the ICC [International Criminal Court] Prosecutor and\u2026 whose visa, I believe, has\u2026 was revoked last year, and also investigatory staff, was that specifically discussed?<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Not that I’m aware, and I think we all have to double\u2011check exactly what happened with the visa of the ICC Prosecutor.\u00a0 As you know, there has been an issue, which we have raised publicly and privately, with the issuance of visas for certain delegations who want to work here at the UN.\u00a0 I can only speak to the readout we put out.\u00a0 In terms of the list, as we’ve always said in the past, this was a decision taken by the\u2026 this was a mandate given to the High Commissioner for Human Rights by the [Human Rights] Council.\u00a0 She acted on that mandate.\u00a0 As any UN Secretariat official there, she has no choice but to act on the mandate.\u00a0 And I have nothing further on the list as of now.<\/p>\n

Question<\/u>:\u00a0 I think in conjunction with the discussions surrounding the issuance of the list, it was partly for the purpose, at least as stated at the time, to impact on the procurement decisions of the UN and potentially other Member States.\u00a0 So, I’m just wondering, were there any deliberations under way, to your knowledge, within the Secretariat governing procurement from those listed businesses?<\/p>\n

Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Not to my knowledge, which is sometimes rather limited.<\/p>\n

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