The following is a near-verbatim transcript of the noon briefing on 5 June 2020 by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n
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Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n
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Question<\/u>:\u00a0 My second question is, what is the United Nations doing, if anything, to pursue a meeting of the Quartet to follow up on\u2026 on\u2026?<\/p>\n
Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Discussions are ongoing, being led by Mr.\u00a0[Nickolay] Mladenov from the region, and as soon as we have something to announce, I will let you know.<\/p>\n
Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Does that mean\u2026 does that mean that he actually is trying to put together some kind of a meeting?<\/p>\n
Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 I think we\u2026 as we’ve said publicly, we think there would be a benefit from having a Quartet meeting.\u00a0 James Bays.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 James?<\/p>\n
Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 I have a different question, but I’m going to follow up on that.\u00a0 Does the Secretary\u2011General and Mr.\u00a0Mladenov, then, believe it is imperative to have that Quartet meeting before what seems to be the clear deadline, which is July, and the date that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu says he is going to carry out annexation of parts of the West Bank?<\/p>\n
Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 I think we would like to see a Quartet\u2026 I think we’d all benefit from a Quartet meeting happening as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
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