Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Ban Ki-moon to brief Security Council on Israeli-Palestinian Tensions

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will brief the Security Council on Wednesday on his trip to the Middle East where he is seeking to defuse weeks of violence, diplomats said.

Ban made the request to urgently speak to council members by video-conference from the Palestinian West Bank city of Ramallah.


The closed-door emergency meeting is scheduled for 1900 GMT.

Ban paid a surprise visit to the region on Tuesday to personally deliver a warning to both Israelis and the Palestinians to stand back from a "dangerous abyss."

The UN chief met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was due to hold talks with Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday morning.

More than 40 Palestinians have been martyred in the upsurge of violence that began at the beginning of the month. Eight Israelis have died in stabbing operations carried out by Palestinian youths.

Ban called for renewed negotiations after the peace process went into a deep freeze last year following the breakdown of a US initiative.

"We must, for the future of our children, come back from this dangerous abyss, safeguard the two-state solution, and lead people back to the road toward peace," he said.

Ban's report from the region will come on the eve of a ministerial-level debate at the Security Council on the way forward in the Middle East amid fears that the violence could spiral out of control.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will also meet Netanyahu in Germany this week and Abbas later at an unspecified location in the Middle East.
Source: AFP

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1 comment:

  1. Le secrétaire général de l'ONU Ban Ki-moon va informer mercredi le Conseil de sécurité de ses contacts au Proche-Orient pour tenter d'apaiser les tensions israélo-palestiniennes, au cours de consultations à huis clos, ont indiqué mardi des diplomates...

    M. Ban s'adressera au Conseil par vidéoconférence depuis Ramallah (Cisjordanie), où il doit rencontrer mercredi le président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas.

    C'est à la demande de M. Ban que cette réunion a été convoquée "d'urgence", à partir de 15H00 locales (19H00 GMT), "pour informer les membres du Conseil de sa visite en Israël et Palestine", ont précisé ces diplomates.

    Jan Eliasson pour faire le point au Conseil

    Au cours d'une visite-surprise entamée mardi, M. Ban a déjà rencontré le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu.

    Il a mis en garde les dirigeants israéliens contre un usage excessif de la force, alors que les violences ne connaissent aucun répit entre Israéliens et Palestiniens, et a pressé les deux camps d'agir vite pour éviter une "dangereuse escalade"................http://www.rtbf.be/info/dossier/perspectives-dans-le-conflit-israelo-palestinien/detail_israel-palestiniens-consultations-au-conseil-de-securite-de-l-onu?id=9114084

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