{"id":244074,"date":"2020-12-17T17:10:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=244074"},"modified":"2020-12-18T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:11:42","slug":"settlement-annexation-17-dec-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/settlement-annexation-17-dec-2020-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlement, Annexation\u2013 17 Dec. 2020 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>17 DECEMBER 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\u2011General.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 Thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 The Israeli Knesset now is debating the issue of legalising the settlement outposts, which is normally\u2026 until now, has been considered by Israeli law as illegal.\u00a0 So, the first reading in the Knesset have passed, and there will be second and third reading.\u00a0 So, would the UN be waiting until the Israeli Knesset utilize these outpost settlements and then issue a statement saying all settlement activities are illegal and hinder the two\u2011state solution?<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Well, I mean, that\u2019s something we\u2019ve been saying for a long time, Abdelhamid.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s not\u2026 our position, again, is unchanged, is firm and is very clear.<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 But can\u2019t something be said in advance before\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Things\u2026 I mean, we have expressed our concern about annexation.\u00a0 We\u2019ve repeatedly stated our position on the legal status of these settlements. \u00a0So, I mean, if anybody cares to take our position to account, all they need to do is read.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 DECEMBER 2020 The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary\u2011General. \/&#8230; Questions and Answers \/&#8230; Question:\u00a0 Thank you, St\u00e9phane.\u00a0 The Israeli Knesset now is debating the issue of legalising the settlement outposts, which is normally\u2026 until now, has been considered by Israeli law as illegal.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/settlement-annexation-17-dec-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":[897],"document-category":[2573],"document-source":[5352,6169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2849,2137],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-244074","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-subject-annexation","document-subject-settlements","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/244074","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\/244074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=244074"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=244074"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=244074"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=244074"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=244074"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=244074"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=244074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}