02/04/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/04/2021 16:27
Unilateral Actions Could Jeopardize Resumption of Peace Talks, Secretary-General Warns, as Palestinian Rights Committee Holds First 2021 Meeting
Inequalities under Occupation Deepened amid COVID-19, Permanent Observer Points Out, as Members Re-elect Senegal to Chair
The unresolved question of Palestine underlines the continuing importance of the Palestinian Rights Committee, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said today, during that body s first formal meeting of 2021, warning that unliteral actions jeopardize the possibility of restarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The year 2021 presents tremendous tests and opportunities across the board, he told members of the entity, known formally as the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. It challenges us to reinvent how we make and sustain peace, while confronting the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: United Nations secretary general
I was very honoured to preside over the beginning of this yearâs first meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.Â
My congratulations to the Chair, Ambassador Cheikh Niang, and other members of the Bureau, on your election.
Excellencies,
The unresolved question of Palestine underlines the continued importance of the Committee.
This is affirmed by the General Assemblyâs adoption, last December and by large majorities, of all the resolutions on the question of Palestine recommended by the Committee.
The year 2021 presents tremendous tests and opportunities across the board.
Secretary-General s remarks at the 2021 Opening Session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People [as delivered]
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My congratulations to the Chair, Ambassador Cheikh Niang, and other members of the Bureau, on your election.
Excellencies,
The unresolved question of Palestine underlines the continued importance of the Committee.
This is affirmed by the General Assembly’s adoption, last December and by large majorities, of all the resolutions on the question of Palestine recommended by the Committee.
The year 2021 presents tremendous tests and opportunities across the board.
It challenges us to reinvent how we make and sustain peace, while confronting the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
UN chief: Israeli settlement enterprise a major obstacle to achieving peace
Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres (file photo)
NEW YORK, Thursday, February 04, 2021 (WAFA) – Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres said today that the ongoing Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories pose a major obstacle to achieving peace based on a two-state solution. I reiterate my call on the Government of Israel to immediately halt all settlement activity, which is a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution, and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace, Guterres said at the 2021 Opening Session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.