{"id":155464,"date":"2018-07-20T13:37:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=155464"},"modified":"2018-07-23T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T16:14:40","slug":"un-position-on-the-israel-as-the-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people-law-unog-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/un-position-on-the-israel-as-the-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people-law-unog-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Position on the \u201cIsrael as the Nation-State of the Jewish People\u201d Law &#8211; Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵOG Press Briefing (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pr_date\"><strong>20 July 2018<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Rh\u00e9al LeBlanc,\u00a0<\/span><u><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Chief of the Press and External Relation Section, United Nations Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, International Organization for Migration, World Meteorological Organization, United Nations Children\u2019s Fund, World Food Programme, and the World Health Organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">\/&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">A journalist asked about the position of the United Nations on the law adopted by Israel which had declared Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people thus\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">de facto<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">\u00a0excluding Arabic language and so 20 per cent of the Israeli population. Many countries regarded this law as a violation of international law and the rights of the Palestinian people, added another.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Rh\u00e9al LeBlanc, for the\u00a0<\/span><u><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">United Nations Information Service in Geneva<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">, said that the question had been raised during the press briefing in New York yesterday. The Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General had said that the United Nations needed some time to study the new legislation, and if a response were available, it would be shared with everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 July 2018 Rh\u00e9al LeBlanc,\u00a0Chief of the Press and External Relation Section, United Nations Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, International Organization for Migration, World Meteorological Organization, United Nations Children\u2019s Fund, World Food Programme, and the World <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/un-position-on-the-israel-as-the-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people-law-unog-press-briefing-excerpts\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[2565],"document-source":[2009],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1741,2185],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-155464","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-press-briefing","document-source-united-nations-office-at-geneva-unog","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-legal-issues","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/155464","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\/155464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=155464"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=155464"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=155464"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=155464"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=155464"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=155464"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=155464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}