  {"id":202724,"date":"2007-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=202724"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:25:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:25:34","slug":"auto-insert-202724","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-202724\/","title":{"rendered":"SecGen dispatches Middle East envoy amid rising concern &#8211; Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ news item"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>Secretary-General dispatches Middle East envoy amid rising concern<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>22 May 2007 <\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>&#8211; <\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is dispatching his new Middle East envoy Michael Williams to the region for consultations after a week of deadly violence involving intra-Palestinian clashes, Israeli military operations and Palestinian rocket attacks. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. Williams is currently en route to the Middle East and is expected to start holding meetings on Thursday with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ spokesperson Michele Montas told journalists today. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. Williams is then scheduled to travel to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for further consultations. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:9px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Yesterday Mr. Ban&#8217;s spokesperson issued a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/6F791D487E15EFFC852572E200642813.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">statement<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">voicing hope that the ceasefire reached among the Palestinian factions will hold after a week of deadly clashes in the Gaza Strip. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The statement also expressed deep concern that Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets targeting Israeli civilians, and, while recognizing Israel&#8217;s right to defend itself, that Israeli military operations in Gaza have led to a mounting number of civilian casualties. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Last week Mr. Ban announced that Mr. Williams had been appointed as the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, as well as the Secretary-General&#8217;s Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority and his Envoy to the Quartet, the international diplomatic grouping on the Middle East.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary-General dispatches Middle East envoy amid rising concern&nbsp; 22 May 2007 &#8211; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is dispatching his new Middle East envoy Michael Williams to the region for consultations after a week of deadly violence involving intra-Palestinian clashes, Israeli military operations and Palestinian rocket attacks. 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