{"id":194625,"date":"2005-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=194625"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:50:58","slug":"auto-insert-194625","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-194625\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassination of former Prime Minister of Lebanon &#8211; Spokesman&#8217;s Office (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"5px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:15pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPOKESMAN&#39;S NOON BRIEFING<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>BY FRED ECKHARD<br \/>\nSPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Monday, February 14, 2005<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>UNITED NATIONS CONDEMNS ASSASSINATION<br \/>\nOF FORMER LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Secretary-General Kofi Annan has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/E115823057A5956B85256FA800691326.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">learned<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">with great sadness and shock of the brutal murder in the heart of Beirut today of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon and a number of others.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Mr. Hariri&#8217;s death is an immense loss to Lebanon, the region and the international community. He will always be remembered for his dedication to the people of Lebanon, for his success as a statesman and a businessman, for his great achievements in the reconstruction of Lebanon after a long and ugly conflict, and for his courage and directness in public and in private. <br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Secretary-General sends his deepest condolences to Mr. Hariri&#8217;s wife and family, as well as to all the other bereaved families.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest terms those who instigated, planned and executed this callous political assassination. Such acts are a reversion to a chapter in Lebanon&#8217;s history that he had hoped was long past. It is imperative that the already fragile situation in the region should not be further destabilized.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Meanwhile, the Secretary-General urges all Lebanese to exercise utmost restraint, and to use peaceful means in support of their national aspiration to full sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked what the statement&#8217;s reference to a &#8220;reversion&#8221; to Lebanon&#8217;s past meant, the Spokesman said that the Secretary-General hopes that there will be no return to the violence, destruction and death that took place during the Lebanese civil war. The Spokesman added that this is a warning signal, and the Secretary-General urges the Lebanese to pull back, think hard and not return to the days of the civil war.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Following Security Council consultations, the Security Council President spoke to the press, saying that Council members also condemned the assassination in Lebanon. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;&#160;Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General<br \/>\nUnited Nations, S-378<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10017<br \/>\nTel. 212-963-7162 &#8211;<strong>&nbsp;press\/media only<\/strong><br \/>\nFax. 212-963-7055<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;padding-top:10px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>All other inquiries to be addressed to (212) 963-4475 or by e-mail to: inquiries@un.org<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPOKESMAN&#39;S NOON BRIEFING BY FRED ECKHARD SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Monday, February 14, 2005 UNITED NATIONS CONDEMNS ASSASSINATION OF FORMER LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER Secretary-General Kofi Annan has learned&nbsp;with great sadness and shock of the brutal murder in the heart of Beirut today of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-194625\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2573],"document-source":[5352,2165],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1857,1813,1965],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-194625","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-news-service","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-middle-east-situation","document-subject-situation-in-lebanon","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/194625","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\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/194625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=194625"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=194625"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=194625"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=194625"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=194625"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=194625"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=194625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}