{"id":241536,"date":"2020-10-30T14:48:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=241536"},"modified":"2020-11-05T10:33:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:33:37","slug":"settlements-14-oct-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/settlements-14-oct-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlements \u2013 30 Oct. 2020 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>30 OCTOBER 2020<\/strong><\/h6>\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>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Yes, St\u00e9phane. \u00a0The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Michael Lynk, issued a strong statement today under the title\u2026 it calls for accountability as Israel records highest rate of illegal settlements approval. \u00a0Does the SG stand behind the Special Rapporteur in such a statement?<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Look, two separate things. \u00a0One, our position against settlements in the occupied territory has been repeated over and over again, has been made publicly and has been made privately. \u00a0Special rapporteurs are independent. \u00a0It\u2019s not for the Secretary\u2011General to opine on what they say. \u00a0They have a very important role\u2026 special rapporteurs globally have a very important role as part of the human rights mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 OCTOBER 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 \/&#8230; Question:\u00a0 Yes, St\u00e9phane. \u00a0The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Michael Lynk, issued a strong statement today under the title\u2026 it calls for accountability as Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/settlements-14-oct-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2573],"document-source":[5352,2025,6169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2137],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-241536","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-opt","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-subject-settlements","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/241536","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\/241536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=241536"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=241536"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=241536"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=241536"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=241536"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=241536"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=241536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}