  {"id":203578,"date":"2015-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=203578"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:36:23","slug":"auto-insert-203578","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-203578\/","title":{"rendered":"German FM Steinmeier visits Israel and the Palestinian Territories &#8211; Germany&#8217;s FFO press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:9px;text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>press release<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Foreign Minister Steinmeier on his trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4.5px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">date of issue<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4.5px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">30.05.2015<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4.5px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Ahead of his departure for Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Steinmeier commented as follows on his talks in Israel and the Palestinian territories:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4.5px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">We have just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel. Our relations with Israel are good and marked by a spirit of mutual trust. Following the general elections, I want to resume talks with the new Israeli Government.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4.5px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Middle East is a region blighted by crises and conflicts which, as foreign policy hotspots, require our full attention. Everything &#8211; the civil war in Syria, our negotiations on Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme, the fight against ISIS as well as the Middle East conflict &#8211; is closely interlinked. Progress in the Middle East peace process continues to be absolutely crucial if there is to be a d&#233;tente in the entire region.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4.5px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The situation in Gaza is especially precarious: we have to make swift progress in reconstruction and economic development in order to give people real prospects for a better future, and Gaza must not be used again as a launching pad for attacks on Israel.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4.5px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">In the new political situation following the elections and the formation of a new government in Israel, my talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah will provide me with an opportunity to form an impression about the prospects for progress in the Middle East peace process in the foreseeable future.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auswaertiges-amt.de\/sid_585AFDACA40FCB179A49B3EF89574442\/EN\/Infoservice\/Presse\/Meldungen\/2015\/150530_Nahost.html\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">http:\/\/www.auswaertiges-amt.de\/sid_585AFDACA40FCB179A49B3EF89574442\/EN\/Infoservice\/Presse\/Meldungen\/2015\/150530_Nahost.html<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>press release Foreign Minister Steinmeier on his trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories date of issue 30.05.2015 Ahead of his departure for Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Steinmeier commented as follows on his talks in Israel and the Palestinian territories: We have just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-203578\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[846],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1937,2065,2005,1813,1797,2117],"entity":[1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-203578","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-germany","document-category-press-release","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-electoral-issues","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-middle-east-situation","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-terrorism","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/203578","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\/203578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=203578"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=203578"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=203578"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=203578"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=203578"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=203578"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=203578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}