{"id":203955,"date":"2004-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=203955"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:40:49","slug":"auto-insert-203955","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-203955\/","title":{"rendered":"SecGen discusses Palestinian elections with Rice\/Larsen assumes Lebanon envoy post &#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 STEPHANE DUJARRIC<br \/>\nASSOCIATE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL<br \/>\n&#160;OF THE UNITED NATIONS<\/p>\n<p>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>Friday, December 17, 2004<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\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:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#160;<strong>ANNAN DISCUSSES PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS WITH U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Before heading off to Brussels, the Secretary-General met in Washington with U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. <br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">They had a very positive and substantive meeting, on a whole range of issues, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Haiti, Liberia and the Middle East Peace Process &#8211; and notably the upcoming Palestinian presidential elections.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked whether Rice expressed confidence in the Secretary-General, the Spokesman said the discussions with Rice did not focus at all on the Secretary-General&#8217;s job, but on issues on which the United Nations and United States are working closely.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The purpose of the Secretary-General&#8217;s visit, he said, was to present the High-Level Panel&#8217;s report to an influential panel and to hold substantive working meetings with U.S. officials, including Powell and Rice. The objective of the visit, he added, was accomplished. <\/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:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t\t<\/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>U.N. ENVOY TO ASSUME NEW RESPONSIBILITIES REGARDING LEBANON<\/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:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Today, outgoing UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Terje Roed-Larsen will leave the region tomorrow to assume new responsibilities as the Secretary&#8217;s Special Envoy for the implementation of Security Council <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/764DC777BFC4307E85256F08005098BF.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">resolution 1559 (2004)<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">. <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;He will be based in New York and also serving as the President of the International Peace Academy.<br \/>\n&#160; <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about Larsen&#8217;s new responsibilities, the Spokesman clarified that it would deal with Lebanon. The Secretary-General would call on Larsen to assist in writing the reports on follow-up to resolution 1559.<\/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<p><\/p>\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;\">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=\"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;\"><strong>All other inquiries to be addressed to (212) 963-4475 or by e-mail to: inquiries@un.org<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPOKESMAN&#39;S NOON BRIEFING BY STEPHANE DUJARRIC ASSOCIATE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL &#160;OF THE UNITED NATIONS UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Friday, December 17, 2004 &#8230; &#160;ANNAN DISCUSSES PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS WITH U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR Before heading off to Brussels, the Secretary-General met in Washington with U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. &#160; They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-203955\/\"> [&#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":[2065,1749,1965],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-203955","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-electoral-issues","document-subject-palestine-question","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\/203955","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\/203955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=203955"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=203955"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=203955"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=203955"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=203955"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=203955"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=203955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}