18 SEPTEMBER 2020<\/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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Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n
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Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 I have two questions.\u00a0 One, yesterday the US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, raised the issue that the US is considering replacing Mahmoud Abbas by another puppet leader, his name is Mohammed Dahlan, who served as a consultant for MBZ (Mohammed bin Zayed) in the United Arab Emirates.\u00a0 Do you have any comment on that?<\/p>\n
Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 No, I haven\u2019t seen those comments and I have no comment, except to say that whether it\u2019s the Palestinian people or people anywhere, people have the right to choose their own leaders.<\/p>\n
Okay.<\/p>\n
Correspondent<\/u>:\u00a0 My second question.<\/p>\n
Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Go ahead.<\/p>\n
Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 Just a few hours ago on a checkpoint near Jenin, a Palestinian doctor died instantly.\u00a0 His name is Nidal Jabarin.\u00a0 He\u2019s 54, when Israelis threw smoke and sound bombs at the crowd, so he had heart problems so he died instantly, so I hope that will\u2026 this incident will make it to [Nickolay] Mladenov\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
But my question: \u00a0Don\u2019t you see that Israeli\u2026 Israel has been emboldened by these treaties to become more brutal with the Palestinians? \u00a0There are more number of people arrested, more houses being destroyed, more killing in the last few days since the beginning of August to (rustling) 4\u00a0September, so it\u2019s going from bad to worse, the situation.\u00a0 How could the UN wait from these treaties when, in fact, emboldened Israel and became more brutal with the Palestinians?<\/p>\n
Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Look, the Secretary-General<\/p>\n
Sorry.\u00a0 Let me start again.<\/p>\n
Correspondent<\/u>:\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t hear you.<\/p>\n
Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 The Secretary-General will continue to report on the events on the ground through his Special Coordinator, Mr. Mladenov, as he sees them.\u00a0 We will leave the analysis to others, including journalists, and I think the Secretary-General is very clear in his position on the accords that he gave during the press conference.<\/p>\n
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