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[00:00:01] BY THE HISTORIC STATUS QUO. ARRANGEMENTS GOVERNING THE HOLY
[00:00:04] SITES IN JERUSALEM, AND PROTECT
[00:00:05] AND ENSURE THE SAFETY OF ALL
[00:00:09] RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES THE
[00:00:11] EXTENSIVE GRID CHECKPOINTS AND ROADBLOCKS CONTINUE TO MAKE IT
[00:00:15] DIFFICULT FOR PALESTINIANS TO ACCESS THEIR WORKPLACES AND
[00:00:17] BASIC SERVICES, INCLUDING
[00:00:19] SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS. STUDENTS
[00:00:26] HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY DEMOLITIONS, MILITARY RAIDS ON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, AND DETENTION WHILE TRAVELING TO
[00:00:29] SCHOOL. THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, THE MOST
[00:00:33] WIDELY RATIFIED HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY, STIPULATES THAT EVERY
[00:00:37] CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION. MOREOVER, EDUCATION
[00:00:41] IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST FOUNDATIONS FOR A LASTING PEACE
[00:00:45] AND RECONCILIATION TO BE FOSTERED THROUGH A REFORMED CURRICULUM THAT LEAVES NO ROOM
[00:00:49] FOR EXTREMISM. ACCESS TO HEALTH
[00:00:52] CARE IS SIMILARLY AFFECTED, WITH PATIENTS, INCLUDING CHILDREN, IN
[00:00:56] NEED OF SPECIALIZED OR EMERGENCY
[00:00:57] CARE FACING DELAYS IN REACHING
[00:01:01] MEDICAL FACILITIES, SAFE AND SUSTAINED ACCESS TO EDUCATION
[00:01:04] AND HEALTH CARE, PROTECTION OF
[00:01:07] CIVILIANS, AND FACILITATION OF
[00:01:09] RAPID, SAFE AND UNIMPEDED ACCESS
[00:01:11] TO ESSENTIAL SERVICES MUST BE
[00:01:14] ENSURED. THE MEASURE IS CONTRIBUTING TO THE PALESTINIAN
[00:01:18] AUTHORITY'S FISCAL CRISIS AND UNDERMINING THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY ARE DEEPLY CONCERNING.
[00:01:22] ISRAEL MUST ENSURE THAT THE
[00:01:24] PALESTINIAN BANKING SECTOR CAN
[00:01:26] OPERATE UNOBSTRUCTED, AND THAT
[00:01:28] WITHHELD TAX REVENUES ARE RELEASED, ENABLING THE
[00:01:31] PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TO MEET ITS BUDGETARY OBLIGATIONS AND
[00:01:35] PROVIDE ESSENTIAL SERVICES. AT
[00:01:37] THE SAME TIME, THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY MUST COMMITMENTS TO
[00:01:41] PURSUE MEANINGFUL, COMPREHENSIVE
[00:01:44] REFORMS. THIS MUST INCLUDE
[00:01:47] STRENGTHENING GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY, ADDRESSING
[00:01:50] RADICALIZATION, ENSURING PROVISION OF BASIC SERVICES,
[00:01:52] INCLUDING EDUCATION, IN LINE WITH THE UNESCO STANDARDS, AND
[00:01:56] REFORMING THE PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR FAMILIES OF PRISONERS. CONCRETE
[00:02:00] STEPS MUST ALSO BE TAKEN TO PREVENT INCITEMENT, DISCOURAGE
[00:02:03] VIOLENCE AND PROMOTE PEACEFUL
[00:02:06] COEXISTENCE. PROGRESS ON THESE COMMITMENTS IS AN ESSENTIAL PART
[00:02:09] OF INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY AND ITS
[00:02:13] INSTITUTIONS. WHILE AWAITING
[00:02:16] HOLDING FAIR AND INCLUSIVE
[00:02:17] ELECTIONS, AS ANNOUNCED. MADAM
[00:02:21] PRESIDENT, FOR DECADES, WE HAVE WITNESSED THAT MILITARY POWER,
[00:02:24] AS WELL AS ARMED RESISTANCE,
[00:02:27] FUELS THE RECURRING CYCLE OF VIOLENCE REIGNITED BY PROPONENTS
[00:02:31] OF EXTREME VIEWS ON BOTH SIDES.
[00:02:34] THIS TRAJECTORY DOES NOT
[00:02:36] CONSTITUTE A PATH TO SUSTAINABLE
[00:02:39] PEACE. ADDRESSING BOTH THE SECURITY CONCERNS AND THE
[00:02:43] LEGITIMATE ASPIRATIONS OF ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS
[00:02:47] REQUIRES RENEWED MOMENTUM. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AS PUT
[00:02:50] FORWARD BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND
[00:02:54] ENDORSED BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL
[00:02:57] AND RESOLUTION 2803, REQUIRES GENUINE ENGAGEMENT BY ALL
[00:02:59] PARTIES. A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE
[00:03:03] ENCOMPASSING GAZA AND THE WEST
[00:03:04] BANK IS THE ONLY WAY TO ACHIEVE
[00:03:07] LONG TERM STABILITY, IN LINE WITH THE RELEVANT SECURITY
[00:03:10] COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS AND THE NEW YORK DECLARATION, LATVIA REAFFIRMS ITS COMMITMENT TO THE
[00:03:14] TWO STATE SOLUTION AND TO CONTRIBUTING TO THE SHARED
[00:03:18] OBJECTIVE OF PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE REGION. I THANK YOU, I
[00:03:22] THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF LATVIA FOR THE STATEMENT, AND AS
[00:03:26] I GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE NEXT SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO WARMLY
[00:03:28] WELCOME TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL AMBASSADOR, SARAH MCINTOSH, THE
[00:03:32] NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, TO THE
[00:03:35] UNITED NATIONS. WE LOOK FORWARD TO CLOSELY ENGAGING WITH YOU ON
[00:03:38] THE COUNCIL'S WORK IN THE DAYS
[00:03:40] AHEAD. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR
[00:03:43] >> THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE, AND I
[00:03:46] LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH ALL
[00:03:49] COLLEAGUES HERE AND ACROSS THE UNITED NATIONS FAMILY. THANK YOU
[00:03:52] FOR THE INTRODUCTION. THANK YOU. DEPUTY. SPECIAL COORDINATOR,
[00:03:56] ALEKPEROV, AND DEPUTY EXECUTIVE
[00:04:00] DIRECTOR SULEIMAN, FOR YOUR
[00:04:03] BRIEFINGS. THE UNITED KINGDOM IS CLEAR THAT THE ONLY CREDIBLE PATH TO LASTING
[00:04:06] >> PEACE AND SECURITY REMAINS A
[00:04:08] TWO STATE SOLUTION WITH A SAFE
[00:04:10] AND SECURE ISRAEL, ALONGSIDE A
[00:04:12] SOVEREIGN AND VIABLE PALESTINIAN STATE MADE UP OF GAZA AND THE
[00:04:16] WEST BANK, INCLUDING EAST
[00:04:20] JERUSALEM. THREE PRIORITIES TO ADVANCE PROGRESS TOWARDS THAT
[00:04:23] GOAL. FIRST, IN GAZA, THE UNITED
[00:04:27] KINGDOM WELCOMES THE RECENT FOCUS ON IMPLEMENTING SECURITY
[00:04:29] COUNCIL RESOLUTION 2803, AND
[00:04:32] WANTS TO SEE IT IMPLEMENTED IN
[00:04:35] FULL. THAT MEANS ALL PARTIES DELIVERING ON THEIR COMMITMENTS,
[00:04:38] INCLUDING RESPECT FOR THE
[00:04:40] CEASEFIRE, HAMAS FULFILLING ITS
[00:04:42] DECOMMISSIONING COMMITMENTS, THE PHASED WITHDRAWAL OF THE ISRAELI
[00:04:46] DEFENSE FORCES, AS SET OUT IN THE 20 POINT PLAN AND THE
[00:04:50] ROADMAP PHASE TWO, AND THE TRANSITION OF GOVERNANCE AND
[00:04:53] SECURITY CONTROL TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. WE ENCOURAGE THE PALESTINIAN
[00:04:57] AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE
[00:05:00] IMPLEMENTING REFORMS NEEDED TO FULFILL THAT ROLE. WE THANK THE
[00:05:03] US, QATAR, TURKEY AND EGYPT FOR THEIR TIRELESS EFFORTS TO
[00:05:08] PROGRESS THESE NEGOTIATIONS. THE UNITED KINGDOM WILL CONTINUE TO
[00:05:11] WORK WITH ALL OUR PARTNERS TO
[00:05:13] END THE CONFLICT IN GAZA AND THE
[00:05:17] TERROR THREAT FROM HAMAS. AS FOREIGN SECRETARY ED MILIBAND HAS SAID, CONDITIONS FOR THE
[00:05:20] PEOPLE OF GAZA REMAIN APPALLING.
[00:05:25] ISRAELI AUTHORITIES MUST END UNACCEPTABLE RESTRICTIONS ON AID
[00:05:28] AND ENABLE SAFE, SUSTAINED AND
[00:05:31] UNHINDERED HUMANITARIAN ACCESS
[00:05:34] ACROSS GAZA. SECOND, ADDRESSING
[00:05:36] VIOLENCE IN THE WEST BANK. THE
[00:05:39] UNITED KINGDOM CONDEMNS ESCALATING VIOLENCE ACROSS THE
[00:05:42] WEST BANK. IN JULY ALONE, 13
[00:05:44] PALESTINIANS AND TWO ISRAELIS
[00:05:47] WERE KILLED. RECENT ATTACKS BY ISRAELI SETTLERS ON PALESTINIAN
[00:05:51] VILLAGES AND COMMUNITIES, IN
[00:05:53] SOME CASES ALONGSIDE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE PERSONNEL, ARE
[00:05:56] APPALLING. THESE ARE NOT
[00:05:59] ISOLATED INCIDENTS ORCHARD'S
[00:06:02] JULY REPORT REPORT RECORDS MORE
[00:06:04] THAN 1300 SETTLER RELATED
[00:06:07] INCIDENTS, AFFECTING OVER 250
[00:06:10] PALESTINIAN COMMUNITIES. AROUND 900 PALESTINIANS INJURED AND
[00:06:13] MORE THAN 3200 DISPLACED, AND AT
[00:06:15] LEAST THREE ISRAELIS HAVE BEEN
[00:06:17] KILLED AND 24 INJURED. THIS YEAR
[00:06:21] CHILDREN ARE AMONG THE MOST AFFECTED BY THIS CONFLICT. THEY
[00:06:24] ARE BEING EXPOSED TO REPEATED
[00:06:26] VIOLENCE, DISPLACEMENT AND
[00:06:28] DISRUPTION DUE TO MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS AND MILITARY OPERATIONS. ON THE 4th OF
[00:06:32] AUGUST, ISRAELI FORCES
[00:06:34] DEMOLISHED THREE DONOR FUNDED
[00:06:37] CLASSROOMS AT A SCHOOL JUST
[00:06:39] WEEKS BEFORE THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. WE CALL ON THE
[00:06:43] GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL TO FULFILL THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO PROTECT THE
[00:06:47] PALESTINIAN POPULATION OF THE
[00:06:50] OCCUPIED TERRITORY. WE WELCOME RECENT ARRESTS AND INDICTMENTS
[00:06:54] BY ISRAELI AUTHORITIES OF THE PERPETRATORS OF SETTLER VIOLENCE. BUT PERPETRATORS HAVE
[00:06:57] ACTED WITH IMPUNITY FOR TOO
[00:06:59] LONG, AND MUCH MORE MUST BE DONE
[00:07:01] TO PREVENT AND PROSECUTE ACTS OF
[00:07:04] VIOLENCE. ISRAELI AUTHORITIES
[00:07:07] SECURITY MEASURES MUST BE PROPORTIONATE, CONSISTENT WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND
[00:07:10] CONTRIBUTE TO DE-ESCALATION.
[00:07:13] THIRD, HALTING EXPANSION OF
[00:07:16] SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST BANK.
[00:07:18] SETTLEMENTS ARE ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW. THEY
[00:07:22] UNDERMINE THE VIABILITY OF A TWO STATE SOLUTION, AND THEY FUEL
[00:07:25] INSECURITY FOR BOTH PALESTINIANS
[00:07:29] AND ISRAELIS. THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL HAS APPROVED 104
[00:07:32] SETTLEMENTS IN FOUR YEARS, AN
[00:07:34] INCREASE OF 80%, AND ALLOCATED
[00:07:37] UNPRECEDENTED FUNDING TO THE
[00:07:38] CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SETTLEMENTS.
[00:07:43] THE UNITED KINGDOM CONDEMNS THREATS TO EXPAND ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS AND OUTPOSTS, AND
[00:07:46] OPPOSES THE DECISION TO REINTRODUCE THE E1 SETTLEMENT
[00:07:49] PLAN, WHICH AIMS TO CUT THE WEST
[00:07:51] BANK IN HALF. WE ARE ALARMED BY RECENT MASS INCURSIONS AT THE
[00:07:55] HARAM AL-SHARIF TEMPLE MOUNT. THE STATUS QUO ON JERUSALEM'S
[00:07:59] HOLY SITES MUST BE RESPECTED. MADAM PRESIDENT, IN THE PAST
[00:08:02] WEEKS, WE HAVE SEEN RENEWED
[00:08:04] EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT RESOLUTION
[00:08:07] 2803, WHICH OFFERS THE MOST VIABLE PATHWAY TOWARDS LASTING
[00:08:10] PEACE. THE DETERIORATING
[00:08:12] TRAJECTORY IN THE WEST BANK MUST NOT UNDERMINE THAT HARD WON
[00:08:16] PROCESS. THANK YOU.
[00:08:19] >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND I NOW
[00:08:22] GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE
[00:08:25] REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEMOCRATIC
[00:08:27] REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO >> PRESIDENT. >> MADAM PRESIDENT, THE DRC.
[00:08:31] THANKS. THE DEPUTY SPECIAL
[00:08:33] COORDINATOR FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
[00:08:35] PEACE PROCESS, MR. RAMIZ ALAKBAROV, AS WELL AS THE DEPUTY
[00:08:39] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNICEF,
[00:08:42] MISS HANAN SULEIMAN, FOR THEIR
[00:08:45] INSIGHTFUL BRIEFINGS. BARELY A MONTH AGO, ON JUNE 29th, MY
[00:08:48] DELEGATION HAD ALREADY EXPRESSED
[00:08:51] ITS CONCERN REGARDING THE PERSISTING VIOLENCE AND TENSIONS
[00:08:54] IN THE WEST BANK DEVELOPMENTS
[00:08:57] SINCE THEN, UNFORTUNATELY, HAVE ONLY HEIGHTENED THIS CONCERN AND
[00:09:00] HIGHLIGHT THE URGENT NEED TO
[00:09:03] MAINTAIN CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO A LASTING PEACE. THE DRC
[00:09:07] BELIEVES THAT DE-ESCALATION AND THE PREVENTION OF NEW TENSIONS
[00:09:10] MUST REMAIN THE ABSOLUTE
[00:09:11] PRIORITY. FOR THE SAKE OF ALL POPULATIONS CONCERNED, AS WELL
[00:09:15] AS REGIONAL STABILITY MY COUNTRY
[00:09:19] HAS BEEN ATTENTIVELY HAS STRONGLY CONDEMNED ALL VIOLENCE
[00:09:23] AGAINST PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS, ISRAELIS, ISRAELI CIVILIANS, AND
[00:09:25] ALL ACTS OF TERRORISM, AND CALL
[00:09:27] ON ALL PARTIES TO DEMONSTRATE
[00:09:30] RESTRAINT. MY COUNTRY HAS BEEN ATTENTIVELY FOLLOWING THE EVOLUTION OF THE SITUATION, AS
[00:09:34] WELL AS THE GROWING DIFFICULTIES
[00:09:38] THAT FACE CIVILIAN POPULATIONS,
[00:09:40] ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST BANK,
[00:09:44] INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM. DISPLACEMENT RESTRICTIONS ON
[00:09:46] ACCESS AND DISRUPTIONS OF
[00:09:48] ESSENTIAL SERVICES CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE MOST VULNERABLE
[00:09:52] COMMUNITIES. MY DELEGATION, ESPECIALLY CONCERNED BY THE
[00:09:55] SITUATION OF CHILDREN WHO ARE THE PRIMARY VICTIMS OF THIS
[00:09:59] INSTABILITY IN THE WEST BANK,
[00:10:01] DISRUPTIONS OF ACCESS TO
[00:10:06] EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES FURTHER
[00:10:07] JEOPARDIZE CHILDREN AND THE MOST
[00:10:10] VULNERABLE FAMILIES. THE DRC UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF
[00:10:14] MAINTAINING, WHENEVER POSSIBLE, THE CONTINUITY OF THESE
[00:10:17] SERVICES, AND TO GUARANTEE THAT EVERY CHILD IS ABLE TO GROW,
[00:10:21] LEARN AND TO DEVELOP IN
[00:10:24] CONDITIONS THAT ARE DECENT AND
[00:10:26] THAT FOSTER A BRIGHT FUTURE.
[00:10:28] HERE, THE DRC WOULD LIKE TO REAFFIRM THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
[00:10:32] FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF RESOLUTION 2334 OF 2016 OF THE
[00:10:35] SECURITY COUNCIL, AS WELL AS THE
[00:10:38] RESPECT FOR OBLIGATIONS UNDER
[00:10:40] INTERNATIONAL LAW. WE ENCOURAGE
[00:10:42] ALL PARTIES INVOLVED TO AVOID MEASURES AND ACTIONS THAT COULD FURTHER INFLAME TENSIONS,
[00:10:46] COMPROMISE THE STABILITY ON THE
[00:10:49] GROUND, OR HAMPER PROGRESS TOWARD A NEGOTIATED AND LASTING
[00:10:53] SOLUTION. WE ARE TROUBLED BY THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION, AND WE
[00:10:56] THEREFORE CALL FOR CONTINUED
[00:10:59] EFFORTS TO GUARANTEE SAFE, RAPID, PREDICTABLE AND
[00:11:03] COORDINATED HUMANITARIAN ACCESS
[00:11:05] FOR POPULATIONS IN NEED. IN THIS
[00:11:07] REGARD, WE COMMEND THE ACTIONS
[00:11:10] OF THE UN THROUGH AS WELL AS THE
[00:11:13] HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS THAT CONTINUE THEIR MISSION UNDER
[00:11:15] DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES. THE DRC
[00:11:20] ALSO ENCOURAGES THE STRENGTHENING OF COORDINATION
[00:11:22] BETWEEN ACTORS INVOLVED IN ORDER
[00:11:25] TO FACILITATE AID DELIVERY, IN LINE WITH LEGITIMATE SECURITY
[00:11:29] NEEDS, PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. SPECIAL
[00:11:33] ATTENTION OUGHT TO BE PAID TO PROTECTING HUMANITARIAN WORKERS,
[00:11:36] AS WELL AS THE CONTINUITY OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES, ESPECIALLY
[00:11:39] IN THE AREAS OF HEALTH CARE,
[00:11:41] EDUCATION, WATER AND SANITATION.
[00:11:44] MADAM PRESIDENT, THE GOVERNMENT OF MY COUNTRY IS CONVINCED THAT
[00:11:48] THE RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT
[00:11:49] CHALLENGES MUST BE PART OF A BROADER POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE.
[00:11:53] THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OUGHT TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT
[00:11:56] EFFORTS TO CREATE CONDITIONS FOR A LASTING PEACE THAT IS BASED
[00:11:59] UPON DIALOG. RESPECT FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND DUE,
[00:12:03] REGARD FOR LEGITIMATE CONCERNS,
[00:12:05] SECURITY CONCERNS OF ALL PARTIES
[00:12:10] THE DRC ALSO RECOGNIZES THE LEGITIMATE CONCERNS WITH REGARD
[00:12:13] TO SECURITY OF ISRAEL, AND UNDERSCORES THAT THESE, AS WELL
[00:12:17] AS PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS, OUGHT TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT
[00:12:20] WHILE FULLY RESPECTING INTERNATIONAL LAW. WE THEREFORE, ENCOURAGE ALL PARTIES TO
[00:12:24] EXERCISE RESTRAINT, PURSUE DIALOG, AND ABSTAIN FROM ANY
[00:12:27] ACTIONS THAT COULD EXACERBATE
[00:12:29] THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND.
[00:12:32] ONLY A CREDIBLE, NEGOTIATED POLITICAL PROCESS THAT IS BASED
[00:12:35] UPON THE RELEVANT UN RESOLUTIONS
[00:12:37] WILL BRING ABOUT A JUST,
[00:12:42] COMPREHENSIVE AND LASTING PEACE THAT PROVIDES POPULATIONS THE SECURITY, DIGNITY, AND STABILITY
[00:12:45] THAT THEY LEGITIMATELY ASPIRE
[00:12:47] TO. MADAM PRESIDENT, IN CLOSING,
[00:12:52] THE DRC REAFFIRMS ITS COMMITMENT TO UPHOLDING INTERNATIONAL LAW,
[00:12:55] TO PROTECTING CIVILIAN
[00:12:58] POPULATIONS, AND TO SEEKING A LASTING POLITICAL SOLUTION. WE
[00:13:01] REMAIN CONVINCED THAT THE PATH
[00:13:02] OF DIALOG, RESTRAINT, AND
[00:13:06] COOPERATION OUGHT TO PREVAIL OVER THAT OF CONFRONTATION IN
[00:13:09] ORDER TO MAINTAIN PROSPECTS FOR
[00:13:11] PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE
[00:13:13] REGION. THE DRC. THUS CALLS UPON
[00:13:16] THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO CONTINUE ITS EFFORTS STEADILY
[00:13:20] AND WITH DETERMINATION, IN ORDER
[00:13:21] TO PAVE THE WAY FOR A LASTING
[00:13:25] PEACE BASED UPON COEXISTENCE,
[00:13:27] DIGNITY AND SECURITY FOR ALL. THANK YOU.
[00:13:30] >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
[00:13:34] CONGO, AND I GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF LIBERIA.
[00:13:38] >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM
[00:13:40] PRESIDENT. LIBERIA. THANKS. THE
[00:13:42] DEPUTY SPECIAL COORDINATOR PEACE
[00:13:46] PROCESS AND THE DEPUTY EXECUTIVE
[00:13:49] DIRECTOR OF UNICEF BRIEFINGS 79
[00:14:01] YEARS AGO, LIBERIA CAST ITS VOTE
[00:14:05] FOR UN RESOLUTION 181, A VISION
[00:14:11] OF TWO SOVEREIGN HOMES, AN ARAB
[00:14:17] STATE AND A JEWISH STATE. ONE
[00:14:23] WAS BORN AND LIBERIA WAS AMONG
[00:14:25] THE FIRST TO SPENT NEARLY EIGHT
[00:14:32] DECADES CAUGHT IN THE CRUEL
[00:14:34] PHYSICS OF OCCUPATION,
[00:14:39] DISPLACEMENT AND UNFULFILLED
[00:14:42] PROMISE LIBERIA HAS NEVER
[00:14:46] WITHDRAWN THAT VOTE. TODAY
[00:14:59] DESTINATION. WE DESCRIBE IN
[00:15:02] BRIEFINGS, RATHER THAN A
[00:15:05] POLITICAL DECISION. WE ACTUALLY
[00:15:09] ENFORCE. WE DEPLORE. WE ADJOIN
[00:15:15] AND MEANWHILE, PHYSICAL FACTS ON
[00:15:19] THE GROUND ARE SET LATEST U.N.
[00:15:25] REPORT LAID REALITY ACROSS THE
[00:15:32] WEST BANK OVER 33000
[00:15:36] PALESTINIANS REMAIN FORCIBLY
[00:15:40] DISPLACED JENIN, TULKARM AND
[00:15:46] NOR. SHAMS. THEIR HOMES, EMPTIED
[00:15:48] THEIR RIGHT OF RETURN DENIED
[00:15:53] ACCELERATION OF THE E1
[00:15:56] SETTLEMENT PROJECT AND ONGOING LAND GRABS THREATEN TO SEVER THE
[00:15:59] WEST BANK IN TWO. DEALING AN
[00:16:04] IRREVERSIBLE BLOW TO ANY VIABLE,
[00:16:08] CONTIGUOUS PALESTINIAN FUTURE
[00:16:11] THESE ARE NOT ADMINISTRATIVE
[00:16:14] ADJUSTMENTS. THEY ARE THE
[00:16:17] SYSTEMATIC BURIAL OF PEACE. YET
[00:16:24] LIBERIA'S CLARITY
[00:16:30] NON-NEGOTIABLE PRINCIPLES FIRST
[00:16:36] IS INDIVISIBLE NO DURABLE PEACE
[00:16:43] EVER TAKE ROOT. WHILE ISRAELIS
[00:16:47] LIVE. AND WHILE ISRAELIS LIVE
[00:16:51] UNDER THE TERROR
[00:17:04] WITH EQUAL SEVERITY THE
[00:17:08] UNBEARABLE SUFFERING INFLICTED
[00:17:10] UPON PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS,
[00:17:12] WHERE WOMEN AND CHILDREN THE
[00:17:16] CATASTROPHIC BRUNT OF A CRISIS,
[00:17:19] NOT OF THEIR MAKING HAMAS, AN
[00:17:24] ARMED FACTION STATEHOOD HOSTAGE
[00:17:30] TO ITS OWN SURVIVAL,
[00:17:33] PARADOXICALLY UNDERMINES THE
[00:17:37] VERY LIBERATION AND MUCH NEEDED
[00:17:39] STATEHOOD. IT CLAIMS TO PURSUE.
[00:17:43] THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RESOLUTION
[00:17:47] 2803, WEAPONS ARE ESSENTIAL TO
[00:17:54] ESTABLISHING ONE LEGITIMATE
[00:17:57] GOVERNMENT, ONE LAW, AND ONE
[00:18:03] SECURITY AUTHORITY. TRUE ABOUT
[00:18:09] ENDING SETTLEMENT EXPANSION AND
[00:18:13] ITS VIOLENCE IN THE WEST BANK.
[00:18:17] SECOND.
[00:18:25] SECRETARY GENERAL'S REPORT
[00:18:28] RECALLED A STAGGERING SCALE OF
[00:18:31] VIOLENCE AND VIOLATIONS AGAINST
[00:18:35] CHILDREN ACROSS THE REGION NO
[00:18:50] . MADAM PRESIDENT LIBERIA
[00:18:59] CREDIBILITY ON THIS ISSUE
[00:19:03] AGAINST FOUR TESTS PROTECTION
[00:19:09] RETURN AND VIABILITY. IF WE
[00:19:19] FAIL, THESE FOUR TESTS, LET US
[00:19:24] THEN DROP THE DIPLOMATIC
[00:19:26] PRETENSE. WE ARE PRESIDING OVER
[00:19:33] ITS HISTORY WILL NOT ASK WHETHER
[00:19:42] THIS COUNCIL ISSUED ENOUGH PRESS
[00:19:46] STATEMENTS DEBATED THE MIDDLE
[00:19:48] EAST AND PALESTINIAN QUESTION
[00:19:52] TIME WITHOUT NUMBER. WILL ASK
[00:19:57] WHETHER, WHEN THE WINDOW WAS
[00:20:03] BEING SEALED SHORT BENEATH
[00:20:08] CONCRETE AND VIOLENCE, WE HAD
[00:20:18] LIBERIA CAST ITS VOTE FOR TWO
[00:20:21] STATES IN 1947. CONTINUE TO
[00:20:27] STAND FOR THE SECURITY OF BOTH
[00:20:31] PEOPLES. ABSOLUTE RIGHT OF THEIR
[00:20:40] CHILDREN TO INHERIT A FUTURE
[00:20:43] DEFINED NOT ATTENTION.
[00:20:54] >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF LIBERIA FOR THE STATEMENT, AND I
[00:20:58] NOW GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF PAKISTAN.
[00:21:01] >> THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[00:21:05] THE DISTINGUISHED
[00:21:13] THIS COUNCIL OF ITS RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARDS THIS
[00:21:17] SITUATION THAT WE ARE
[00:21:18] DISCUSSING. AND THE TWO
[00:21:21] BRIEFINGS WE HAVE HEARD TODAY
[00:21:23] ARE ACTION. THE SITUATION AS
[00:21:30] PRESENTED IS GRAVE SPEAK FOR
[00:21:37] THEMSELVES. DEPUTY SPECIAL
[00:21:49] BUILDING ON DECADES OF CONFLICT
[00:21:54] AND OCCUPATION THAT ARE
[00:21:57] UNDERMINING THE PROSPECTS OF THE
[00:22:00] TWO STATE SOLUTION AND DEPUTY
[00:22:03] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SULEIMAN
[00:22:08] INFORMED US OF THE WIDE
[00:22:11] CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT WAS
[00:22:12] HAPPENING IN THE WEST BANK,
[00:22:18] ESPECIALLY FOR. AND, AGAIN THE
[00:22:27] COUNCIL MUST RESPOND BECAUSE THE
[00:22:29] SITUATION IN THE OCCUPIED WEST
[00:22:32] BANK IS DETERIORATING RAPIDLY
[00:22:44] OCCUPATION, ALTER THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND TERRITORIAL
[00:22:47] GROUND, AND UNDERMINE THE
[00:22:50] PROSPECTS OF A PALESTINIAN
[00:22:53] STATE. SETTLEMENT REACHED AN
[00:22:56] ALARMING SCALE. THE EXPANSION OF
[00:22:58] SETTLEMENTS IN THE E1
[00:23:15] AREA, . THIS IS ACCOMPANIED BY
[00:23:18] UNPRECEDENTED SETTLER VIOLENCE.
[00:23:20] THE WEST BANK HAS EXPERIENCED
[00:23:24] ITS LARGEST DISPLACEMENT SINCE
[00:23:28] 1967. FURTHERMORE OVER LAND
[00:23:35] REGISTRATION, ADMINISTRATION AND
[00:23:36] ENFORCEMENT IS COMPOUNDING DE
[00:23:40] FACTO ANNEXATION IN VIOLATION OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
[00:23:44] AND THE ICJ ADVISORY ALONGSIDE
[00:23:50] THESE MEASURES, THE WITHHOLDING
[00:23:51] OF PALESTINIAN REVENUES IS
[00:23:55] SEVERELY UNDERMINING PALESTINIAN INSTITUTIONS. THESE REVENUES
[00:23:58] BELONG TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
[00:23:59] AND MUST BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY
[00:24:09] MOSQUE, AL-HARAM AL-SHARIF, ON
[00:24:11] 24th JULY OF EIGHT ARAB ISLAMIC
[00:24:14] COUNTRIES, IN THEIR STATEMENT,
[00:24:16] HAVE CONDEMNED THE CONTINUED BY
[00:24:20] SETTLERS. THE DESTRUCTIVE
[00:24:25] POLICIES AND ACTIONS IS
[00:24:30] INTIMIDATION, DISPOSSESSION AND
[00:24:32] FORCED DISPLACEMENT, THEREBY PERPETUATING THE CYCLE OF
[00:24:36] OCCUPATION AND ANNEXATION. ALL
[00:24:41] IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL
[00:24:42] LAW. MADAM PRESIDENT, IN GAZA,
[00:24:46] THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IS EXTREMELY FRAGILE. PRESIDENT
[00:24:49] TRUMP'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
[00:24:53] CONFLICT PROVIDED AN IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO ALLEVIATE
[00:24:56] HUMANITARIAN SUFFERING AND
[00:24:58] ADVANCE A CREDIBLE PATHWAY TO
[00:25:01] PALESTINIAN SELF-DETERMINATION
[00:25:04] AND STATEHOOD. BE SQUANDERED.
[00:25:10] PAKISTAN WELCOMED THE POSITIVE
[00:25:12] DEVELOPMENTS UNDER THE BOARD OF PEACE TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION
[00:25:15] OF THE GAZA APPRECIATE THE
[00:25:21] MEDIATORS, INCLUDING THE US ,
[00:25:27] FOR THEIR SUSTAINED EFFORTS.
[00:25:29] HOWEVER, ISRAEL'S CONTINUING
[00:25:32] MILITARY ESCALATIONS AND RECENT
[00:25:35] REJECTION OF THE ROADMAP RISK
[00:25:40] UNDERMINING THIS DIPLOMATIC PROCESS AND JEOPARDIZING THE
[00:25:42] PROSPECTS FOR PEACE. IN VIEW OF
[00:25:46] THE CONCERNING DEVELOPMENTS, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND THIS
[00:25:49] COUNCIL IN PARTICULAR MUST ACT
[00:25:52] WITHOUT FIRST, THE COUNCIL MUST
[00:25:55] ENSURE THAT ISRAEL, THE
[00:25:58] OCCUPYING POWER, IMMEDIATELY
[00:26:01] ACTIVITY AND REVERSE ALL
[00:26:05] UNLAWFUL MEASURES AIMED AT ALTERING THE STATUS, CHARACTER
[00:26:09] DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION OF THE
[00:26:13] OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY. IN LINE WITH RELEVANT SECURITY
[00:26:16] COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS, INCLUDING
[00:26:18] 2334. SECOND NEEDS ACCOUNTABLE.
[00:26:26] THIRD, THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
[00:26:28] MUST BE PROVIDED INTERNATIONAL
[00:26:31] PROTECTION AS ALSO REQUESTED BY
[00:26:34] THE PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT. IN
[00:26:36] HIS LETTER TO THE COUNCIL, AND
[00:26:39] THE COUNCIL MUST RESPOND TO THE
[00:26:41] FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING
[00:26:45] PROTECTION THAT WERE MADE BY
[00:26:48] UNICEF REPRESENTATIVE TODAY.
[00:26:51] FOURTH
[00:27:02] ALL PROVOCATIVE ACTIONS. FIFTH,
[00:27:08] AND THE COMPREHENSIVE PEACE PLAN
[00:27:11] MUST BE AND IN GOOD FAITH THE
[00:27:15] COUNCIL MUST HAVE A SERIOUS
[00:27:18] DISCUSSION HOW TO TACKLE THE
[00:27:21] OBSTACLES AND VIOLATIONS MADAM PRESIDENT, AS THE FOREIGN
[00:27:25] MINISTERS OF THE GROUP OF EIGHT
[00:27:27] ARAB AND ISLAMIC COUNTRIES ON
[00:27:31] 6th AUGUST. IN THE STATEMENT,
[00:27:35] THE ONGOING ISRAELI VIOLATIONS IN THE GAZA STRIP CANNOT BE
[00:27:39] VIEWED IN ISOLATION FROM THE ATTACKS CARRIED OUT BY SETTLERS
[00:27:42] IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK. THE
[00:27:47] UNLAWFUL EXPANSION OF SETTLEMENTS UNILATERAL MEASURES
[00:27:49] AIMED AT ALTERING THE STATUS QUO
[00:27:57] TOGETHER, THESE PRACTICES
[00:27:57] CONSTITUTE IMPOSING A FAIT
[00:28:03] ACCOMPLI BY FORCE, UNDERMINING
[00:28:06] THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE TWO STATE
[00:28:08] SOLUTION MADAM PRESIDENT, THE
[00:28:13] SITUATION IS APPROACHING A DANGEROUS TIPPING POINT. UNLESS
[00:28:16] THIS TRAJECTORY IS REVERSED, THE
[00:28:18] CONSEQUENCES FOR THE TWO STATE
[00:28:21] SOLUTION AND FOR PEACE AND STABILITY ACROSS THE REGION
[00:28:24] COULD BE CATASTROPHIC. THE PATH
[00:28:28] TO PEACE IS CLEAR. IT LIES IN
[00:28:30] ENDING THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION
[00:28:34] AND ENABLING THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE TO EXERCISE THEIR
[00:28:37] INALIENABLE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION THROUGH THE
[00:28:40] ESTABLISHMENT AN INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN, VIABLE, AND
[00:28:44] CONTIGUOUS STATE OF PALESTINE.
[00:28:45] BASED ON THE PRE 1967 AL-SHARIF
[00:28:52] AS ITS CAPITAL. IT IS THE ONLY CREDIBLE FOUNDATION FOR A JUST
[00:28:55] LASTING COMPREHENSIVE PEACE IN
[00:28:58] THE REGION. I THANK YOU
[00:29:01] >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF PAKISTAN FOR THE STATEMENT, AND I NOW GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE
[00:29:05] REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RUSSIAN
[00:29:09] FEDERATION. >> MADAM PRESIDENT RUSSIA
[00:29:12] SUPPORTED THE CONVENING OF
[00:29:14] TODAY'S SECURITY COUNCIL
[00:29:19] MEETING. WITH
[00:29:28] WITH A FOCUS ON THE SITUATION IN
[00:29:29] THE WEST BANK. WE BELIEVE IT'S
[00:29:35] UNACCEPTABLE TO FURTHER ERODE
[00:29:35] INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION TOWARD
[00:29:40] THE TASK OF ACHIEVING A JUST AND LASTING MIDDLE EAST SETTLEMENT.
[00:29:43] THE CORNERSTONE OF WHICH WAS AND
[00:29:47] REMAINS, THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT. THE CONFRONTATION,
[00:29:51] WHICH DECADES LATER, REMAINS THE
[00:29:52] KEY IRRITANT IN THE REGION, PERPETUATING ITS GENERAL STATE
[00:29:56] OF CRISIS AND CAUSING NEW
[00:29:59] FLASHPOINTS OF TENSION TO EMERGE
[00:30:02] IN THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST
[00:30:04] REGION. WE THANK THE DEPUTY
[00:30:07] SPECIAL COORDINATOR OF THE UN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE
[00:30:10] PROCESS, RAMIZ ALAKBAROV, AND
[00:30:12] THE DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
[00:30:16] UNICEF, HANAN SULEIMAN, FOR THEIR DETAILED BRIEFINGS ON THE
[00:30:19] SITUATION IN THE WEST BANK. WE
[00:30:22] AGREE WITH THE ALARMING ASSESSMENTS OF THESE YOUNG
[00:30:26] REPRESENTATIVES, ESSENTIALLY, THE WEST BANK IS APPROACHING A
[00:30:29] POINT OF NO RETURN, WITH A RISK
[00:30:31] OF PROFOUND DESTABILIZATION OF
[00:30:34] THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE
[00:30:36] ENTIRE REGION. THE REASONS FOR THIS DANGEROUS TREND ARE WELL
[00:30:39] KNOWN. THEY LIE IN THE CREEPING
[00:30:41] EXPANSION OF ISRAEL AND THE OPT.
[00:30:45] THE ESCALATION OF SETTLEMENT, ACTIVITY, OF SETTLEMENT
[00:30:47] VIOLENCE, AND THE UNPRECEDENTED TIGHTENING OF ISRAELI
[00:30:51] RESTRICTIONS ON THE MOVEMENT OF PALESTINIAN RESIDENTS AGAINST
[00:30:54] THE POSITION OF MOST OF THE
[00:30:56] INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. WEST JERUSALEM CONTINUES ITS ILLEGAL
[00:31:00] POLICY OF BUILDING NEW SETTLEMENTS. A FEW DAYS AGO, THE
[00:31:03] GOVERNMENT ISSUED YET ANOTHER TENDER FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
[00:31:07] OVER 600 HOUSING UNITS IN THE
[00:31:08] PROVINCE OF RAMALLAH AND
[00:31:12] AL-BIREH. SETTLER VIOLENCE HAS REACHED EXTREME LEVELS. WHEN THEY'RE CARRIED OUT, IT'S
[00:31:16] CARRIED OUT NOT ONLY WITH IMPUNITY, BUT SOMETIMES WITH THE CONNIVANCE OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS.
[00:31:20] IN LATE JULY, EARLY AUGUST,
[00:31:23] THERE WAS A WAVE OF ATTACKS CARRIED OUT IN A NUMBER OF
[00:31:26] CITIES IN WHICH RADICALS BURNED MOSQUES, RAVAGED HOMES AND
[00:31:30] VEHICLES, AND DOZENS OF PEOPLE
[00:31:31] WERE INJURED, ACCORDING TO
[00:31:34] OPENLY AVAILABLE SOURCES. THE. THIS SETTLER VIOLENCE IS
[00:31:38] REACHING TRAGIC NEW LEVELS. SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS
[00:31:41] YEAR, OVER 11,000 ATTACKS HAVE BEEN COMMITTED. ISRAELI
[00:31:44] CIVILIANS HAVE KILLED OVER 20.
[00:31:46] WEST BANK CIVILIANS. IN
[00:31:50] PARALLEL, WE ARE SEEING
[00:31:52] INTENSIFYING IDF OPERATIONS TO
[00:31:56] CLEAR WEST BANK TOWNS AND REFUGEE CAMPS. THESE ARMED RAIDS
[00:32:00] ARE ACCOMPANIED BY ARBITRARY ARRESTS OF PALESTINIANS AND LARGE SCALE RESTRICTIONS ON
[00:32:04] THEIR MOVEMENT. ESPECIALLY
[00:32:07] TROUBLING IS THE FACT THAT, DUE
[00:32:09] TO THESE MEASURES, THE LARGEST
[00:32:13] PALESTINIAN TOWNS ARE BLOCKADED,
[00:32:15] AND EVEN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED. WE
[00:32:18] CALL ON ISRAEL TO REFRAIN FROM
[00:32:23] ANY ARBITRARY MEASURES, INCLUDING SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY,
[00:32:26] THAT UNDERMINE THE PROSPECTS FOR
[00:32:28] A TWO STATE SOLUTION, AS WELL AS TO TAKE EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO
[00:32:31] CURB SETTLER VIOLENCE AND TO
[00:32:36] IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO IMPLEMENTING RELEVANT UN
[00:32:40] RESOLUTIONS. MADAM PRESIDENT, OF
[00:32:43] EQUAL CONCERN IS THE SITUATION IN ANOTHER PART OF THE OPT THAT
[00:32:47] IS GAZA. THE PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AMERICAN
[00:32:51] PEACE PLAN FOR GAZA HAS
[00:32:54] ESSENTIALLY STALLED. CERTAINLY,
[00:32:55] IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT,
[00:32:59] THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF MEDIATORS, LARGE SCALE BLOODSHED HAS CEASED IN THE ENCLAVE.
[00:33:02] HOWEVER, THE CEASEFIRE REGIME CONTINUES TO BE SYSTEMATICALLY
[00:33:04] VIOLATED, MAINLY BY ISRAEL. THIS
[00:33:07] IS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED BY THE
[00:33:09] NUMBERS OF VICTIMS. IN LESS THAN
[00:33:15] A YEAR SINCE THE FORMAL ENTRY INTO EFFECT OF THE CEASEFIRE.
[00:33:18] ISRAELIS HAVE KILLED ALMOST 1300 PALESTINIANS, AMONG THEM,
[00:33:21] ACCORDING TO UNICEF, FIGURES, ARE ALMOST 300 CHILDREN. THAT
[00:33:24] MEANS THAT OVER THE PAST 300 DAYS IN GAZA, ON AVERAGE, ONE
[00:33:28] CHILD HAS BEEN KILLED PER DAY BY
[00:33:30] ISRAELI SOLDIERS. DESPITE THIS TRAGIC REALITY HERE AT THE
[00:33:34] SECURITY COUNCIL, A NUMBER OF WESTERN DELEGATIONS HAVE OVER
[00:33:38] THE PAST FEW MONTHS PLACED THE
[00:33:40] ENTIRE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
[00:33:43] STAGNATION OF THE GAZA PEACE
[00:33:46] PLAN ON HAMAS ALONE. WE ALL
[00:33:48] RECALL HOW DURING SECURITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, THE LEADERSHIP
[00:33:53] OF HAMAS WERE INSISTENTLY CALLED UPON TO IMMEDIATELY LAY DOWN
[00:33:56] THEIR ARMS, NOT TO HINDER THE WORK OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE
[00:33:58] FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF GAZA
[00:34:01] AND TO ACCEPT THE ROADMAP OF THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BOARD
[00:34:04] OF PEACE. NICKOLAY MLADENOV.
[00:34:07] WE'D LIKE TO HOPE THAT OUR
[00:34:10] WESTERN COLLEAGUES WILL SHOW THE SAME UNITY AND RESOLVE WITH REGARD TO THE OTHER PARTY, TO
[00:34:14] THE CONFLICT, IN LIGHT OF THE
[00:34:17] PUBLIC REJECTION OF THE ROADMAP BY WEST JERUSALEM. WHILE HAMAS
[00:34:20] HAS AGREED TO THE DEAL. MADAM PRESIDENT, WE REPEATEDLY NOTED
[00:34:24] THAT SUCCESS OF ANY PEACE INITIATIVE ON MIDDLE EAST
[00:34:27] SETTLEMENT WILL BE MEASURED BY THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ITS CHIEF GOAL, THE CREATION OF A SINGLE,
[00:34:30] INDEPENDENT AND CONTIGUOUS STATE OF PALESTINE AND THE WEST BANK
[00:34:33] AND GAZA, WITH ITS CAPITAL IN
[00:34:37] EAST JERUSALEM. THE CREATION OF A STATE COEXISTING IN PEACE AND
[00:34:41] SECURITY WITH ISRAEL, AS DEMONSTRATED BY THE EXPERIENCE
[00:34:44] OF THE PAST FEW YEARS, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO RESOLVE THE
[00:34:47] PALESTINIAN ISSUE, AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF MIDDLE EAST SETTLEMENT ISSUES. HASTILY
[00:34:51] OR THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF AD
[00:34:56] HOC BACKROOM SCHEMES. EQUALLY
[00:34:57] FUTILE, OR ATTEMPTS OF CERTAIN COUNTRIES TO MONOPOLIZE THE ROLE
[00:35:01] OF MEDIATOR, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PRINCIPAL MEDIATOR ACTS SOLELY
[00:35:04] IN THE INTERESTS OF ONE SIDE OF
[00:35:08] THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT. UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, WHEN ONE CAN HARDLY EXPECT TO SEE JUSTICE
[00:35:12] OR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE
[00:35:14] ASPIRATIONS OF THE PALESTINIAN
[00:35:18] PEOPLE, HOWEVER, AN ALTERNATIVE PATH REMAINS OPEN. ACHIEVING LASTING STABILITY AND AN
[00:35:21] IMPROVED SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY
[00:35:25] THROUGH COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL
[00:35:28] EFFORTS THAT RELY ON THE EXTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL
[00:35:31] BASIS FOR SETTLEMENT, THE
[00:35:34] CORNERSTONE OF WHICH IS THE TWO
[00:35:35] STATES FOR TWO PEOPLES FORMULA. THANK YOU.
[00:35:39] >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR THE STATEMENT, AND I NOW GIVE THE
[00:35:43] FLOOR TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF
[00:35:45] PANAMA. >> GRACIAS.
[00:35:48] >> THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
[00:35:51] PANAMA IS GRATEFUL FOR THE
[00:35:53] CONVENING OF THIS MEETING. WE.
[00:35:58] THANK MR. RAMIZ ALAKBAROV,
[00:36:02] DEPUTY SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS,
[00:36:04] AND MRS. HANAN SULEIMAN, DEPUTY
[00:36:10] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNICEF,
[00:36:10] FOR THEIR INVALUABLE AND MOVING
[00:36:14] TESTIMONY MOREOVER, WE RECOGNIZE
[00:36:19] THE PRESENCE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF
[00:36:21] ISRAEL AND THE OBSERVER STATE OF
[00:36:24] PALESTINE. THEY ARE WITH US IN
[00:36:26] THE CHAMBER THIS MORNING. WE
[00:36:32] NOTE WITH GRAVE CONCERN THE INCREASING WORSENING OF THE
[00:36:35] SITUATION IN THE WEST BANK THAT
[00:36:37] HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY THE
[00:36:39] BRIEFERS, WITH FIGURES. THE
[00:36:42] RECENT ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE
[00:36:44] AND INTIMIDATION CONTINUES TO
[00:36:47] CLAIM LIVES TRIGGER THE
[00:36:51] DISPLACEMENT OF COMMUNITIES AND WORSEN THE HUMANITARIAN
[00:36:55] SITUATION. IN ADDITION, WE ARE SEEING RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON
[00:36:59] MOVEMENT THAT CONTINUE TO STYMIE ACCESS TO THE CIVILIAN
[00:37:03] POPULATION AND THEIR ACCESS TO
[00:37:04] CRUCIAL SERVICES, INCLUDING
[00:37:07] EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE AND
[00:37:11] LIVELIHOODS. THAT, IN TURN,
[00:37:14] WORSENS THE CONDITIONS ENDURED
[00:37:16] BY THE MOST VULNERABLE
[00:37:20] COMMUNITIES. WITH DRAMATIC
[00:37:23] LUCIDITY, MISS HANNA SULEIMAN DESCRIBED JUST THAT IN HER
[00:37:26] BRIEFING. SHE SAID THAT THOSE THAT MOST ACUTELY SUFFER THE
[00:37:30] CONSEQUENCES OF THIS SITUATION
[00:37:33] INCLUDE CHILDREN. THE
[00:37:36] CONTINUATION OF VIOLENCE, THE RISING TIDE OF ATTACKS AND
[00:37:40] FORCED DISPLACEMENT. DO NOT ONLY
[00:37:44] AFFECT THE WEST BANK. THAT IS
[00:37:45] THE SUBJECT OF THIS MEETING.
[00:37:49] THESE PHENOMENA ALSO UNDERMINE THE DEVELOPMENT, WELL-BEING AND
[00:37:53] ACCESS OF MANY CHILDREN TO SAFE,
[00:37:58] UNINTERRUPTED EDUCATION. AS SUCH, WE REITERATE THE
[00:38:00] IMPORTANCE OF GUARANTEEING SAFE,
[00:38:06] CONTINUED ACCESS WITHOUT FEAR OR
[00:38:08] INTIMIDATION. AND INDEED, THIS
[00:38:10] ACCESS TO EDUCATION MUST ALSO BE
[00:38:13] UNINTERRUPTED. PROTECTING CHILDREN AND ACCESS TO
[00:38:16] EDUCATION, AS WELL AS ENSURING
[00:38:19] THE AVAILABILITY OF ADEQUATE
[00:38:21] MEDICAL TREATMENT, ARE ALL
[00:38:24] CRUCIAL COMPONENTS OF PRESERVING
[00:38:27] COMMUNITY RESILIENCE AND OF
[00:38:29] LAYING THE BASIS FOR A LASTING
[00:38:31] PEACE. SCHOOLS MUST REMAIN SAFE
[00:38:38] SPACES FOR LEARNING AND PROTECTION. THEY MUST BE FREE OF
[00:38:41] FEAR, INTIMIDATION AND SPARED
[00:38:43] THE EFFECTS OF THE CONFLICT. ANY
[00:38:47] IMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL
[00:38:49] INFRASTRUCTURE OR ANY DISRUPTION
[00:38:52] TO EDUCATIONAL ACCESS UNDERMINES
[00:38:57] CHILDREN'S PROSPECTS FOR THEIR
[00:38:58] FUTURE. PRESIDENT, VIOLENCE DOES
[00:39:02] NOT ONLY CLAIM LIVES AND DESTROY
[00:39:05] LIVELIHOODS. IT ALSO FUELS A
[00:39:07] CLIMATE OF ONGOING, RELENTLESS
[00:39:09] FEAR THAT LIMITS FREEDOM OF
[00:39:12] MOVEMENT. THAT EXPOSES VICTIMS
[00:39:16] OF ATTACKS TO DISPLACEMENT
[00:39:18] RISKS. AND THIS VIOLENCE ALSO
[00:39:22] UNDERMINES THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, BECAUSE DAILY
[00:39:25] ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS LEAVING
[00:39:29] HOUSES, BECOME A CONSTANT SOURCE OF CONCERN AND INSECURITY.
[00:39:33] CONSEQUENTLY, PROTECTING
[00:39:36] CIVILIANS MUST CONTINUE TO REMAIN AN IMMEDIATE PRIORITY. THIS MUST BE DONE WITH STRINGENT
[00:39:40] ADHERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL LAW,
[00:39:43] INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, AND THE
[00:39:47] RELEVANT RESOLUTIONS OF THIS
[00:39:49] COUNCIL. AGAINST THIS BACKDROP,
[00:39:52] PANAMA REITERATES ITS SUPPORT
[00:39:53] FOR THE WORK THAT THE UNITED
[00:39:58] NATIONS AND ITS AGENCIES CONTINUE TO DO. WE PARTICULARLY
[00:40:02] COMMEND THE LAUDABLE WORK OF
[00:40:04] UNICEF, DONE ALONGSIDE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN
[00:40:07] ORGANIZATIONS AND LOCAL ONES, TO
[00:40:10] AFFORD ASSISTANCE TO CIVILIANS. WE COMMEND THEIR WORK TO PROTECT
[00:40:14] CHILDREN, TO SUPPORT EFFORTS
[00:40:16] AIMED AT PRESERVING STABILITY.
[00:40:19] TO THIS WORK MUST BE ABLE TO
[00:40:23] CONTINUE SAFELY IN AN
[00:40:25] INDEPENDENT AND IMPARTIAL
[00:40:29] FASHION. WHILE INTERNATIONAL LAW
[00:40:30] IS STRINGENTLY UPHELD, INCLUDING
[00:40:34] INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW.
[00:40:37] WE CALL FOR HUMANITARIAN PERSONNEL TO BE PROTECTED AND
[00:40:41] FULL, SAFE, UNFETTERED, CONTINUED HUMANITARIAN ACCESS
[00:40:44] FOR THOSE WHO REQUIRE IT MUST BE PROVIDED. THE CONTINUATION OF
[00:40:48] VIOLENCE, THE LACK OF POLITICAL
[00:40:50] PROGRESS, CONTINUED ATTACKS AND MEASURES WHICH FAN THE FLAMES OF
[00:40:53] TENSION CONTINUE TO UNDERMINE
[00:40:57] THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR THE
[00:41:01] PRESERVATION OF A CREDIBLE
[00:41:03] PEACE. ANY UNILATERAL ACTION
[00:41:07] WHICH ALTERS THE REALITY ON THE
[00:41:09] GROUND IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE
[00:41:12] SPIRIT AND GOALS OF THIS
[00:41:15] COUNCIL'S RELEVANT RESOLUTIONS,
[00:41:18] INCLUDING RESOLUTION 2334 OF
[00:41:24] 2016. THE IMPLEMENTATION THEREOF REMAINS VITAL IF WE ARE TO
[00:41:27] PRESERVE THE FOUNDATIONS FOR A JUST, LASTING AND MUTUALLY
[00:41:31] ACCEPTABLE PEACE. AS SUCH, IT IS VITAL THAT WE SEE THE RESUMPTION
[00:41:34] OF A CRITICAL, CREDIBLE POLITICAL PROCESS. WE MUST
[00:41:37] BOLSTER CONFIDENCE AND TRUST.
[00:41:39] CHAMPION A REFORMED PALESTINIAN
[00:41:42] AUTHORITY ABLE TO DISCHARGE EFFECTIVELY ITS
[00:41:45] RESPONSIBILITIES, AND WE MUST
[00:41:47] AVOID UNILATERAL ACTS, WHICH
[00:41:52] CONTINUE TO FURTHER DIM THE PROSPECTS FOR A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH
[00:41:55] INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE RELEVANT RESOLUTIONS OF THE
[00:41:58] UNITED NATIONS. THANK YOU. >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF PANAMA FOR THE STATEMENT, AND I
[00:42:02] NOW GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE
[00:42:03] REPRESENTATIVE OF CHINA
[00:42:07] >> THANK YOU, PRESIDENT. FIRST OF ALL, CHINA EXTENDS ITS DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE
[00:42:11] VICTIMS OF A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE
[00:42:13] IN COLOMBIA AND EXPRESSES SINCERE SYMPATHIES TO THE
[00:42:17] BEREAVED FAMILY AND THE INJURED. WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT UNDER THE
[00:42:20] LEADERSHIP OF THEIR GOVERNMENT, THE COLOMBIAN PEOPLE WILL SURELY
[00:42:23] JOIN FORCES TO OVERCOME THIS
[00:42:24] DISASTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND
[00:42:28] REBUILD THEIR HOMES. SUPPORTS THE CONVENING OF THIS EMERGENCY
[00:42:32] MEETING OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL, WHICH IS BOTH TIMELY AND
[00:42:35] NECESSARY. I THANK SPECIAL
[00:42:38] DEPUTY SPECIAL COORDINATOR
[00:42:41] ALAKBAROV AND DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SULEIMAN FOR THEIR
[00:42:43] BRIEFINGS CHINA IS DEEPLY
[00:42:47] CONCERNED ABOUT THE RECENT
[00:42:49] ESCALATION IN THE OCCUPIED
[00:42:51] PALESTINIAN TERRITORY AND IS
[00:42:54] DEEPLY DISTRESSED BY INCREASING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES CAUSED BY
[00:42:57] THE ONGOING VIOLENCE. AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF INCREASING
[00:43:01] INSTABILITY IN THE REGION. WE
[00:43:03] MUST NOT ALLOW THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE BE IGNORED OR
[00:43:06] MARGINALIZED. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD TAKE SWIFT
[00:43:10] ACTION TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO CURB CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE,
[00:43:14] SAVE INNOCENT LIVES, AND UPHOLD
[00:43:17] FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE. I WOULD
[00:43:19] LIKE TO MAKE THREE POINTS. FIRST, WE MUST SET THE RECORD
[00:43:23] STRAIGHT, ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES, AND TRULY RESPECT THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE
[00:43:27] PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. FOR SOME
[00:43:29] TIME NOW, THE SITUATION IN THE
[00:43:31] WEST BANK AND GAZA HAS SEEN A
[00:43:33] SHARP DETERIORATION, LEADING TO
[00:43:35] MORE PAIN AND SUFFERING TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. AT ITS CORE,
[00:43:39] THIS IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE
[00:43:42] FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW HAVE NOT BEEN RESPECTED. WHILE THE PALESTINIAN
[00:43:46] PEOPLE'S RIGHTS TO SURVIVAL AND
[00:43:49] DEVELOPMENT LONG IGNORED THE LIVES OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLES ARE
[00:43:52] JUST AS PRECIOUS AS THOSE OF ANY
[00:43:54] OTHER PEOPLE. THE INTERNATIONAL
[00:43:57] COMMUNITY MUST UPHOLD A CLEAR
[00:43:58] SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG,
[00:44:02] FURTHER BUILD CONSENSUS PROMPTLY
[00:44:03] CORRECT ALL ERRONEOUS, ERRONEOUS WORDS AND DEEDS THAT DENY OR
[00:44:07] INFRINGE UPON THE LEGITIMATE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
[00:44:09] AND ENSURE THEIR EQUAL RIGHTS,
[00:44:12] SO AS TO EFFECTIVELY UPHOLD INTERNATIONAL FAIRNESS AND
[00:44:15] JUSTICE. SECOND, DECISIVE AND
[00:44:19] EFFECTIVE ACTION MUST BE TAKEN
[00:44:20] TO STOP CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE.
[00:44:24] THE SITUATION IN THE WEST BANK HAS BEEN ESCALATING DANGEROUSLY.
[00:44:28] THE OCCUPYING POWER IS PUSHING
[00:44:31] FORWARD WITH THE SETTLEMENT
[00:44:33] EXPANSION, DESECRATING AND VANDALIZING RELIGIOUS SITES,
[00:44:36] BLOCKADING REFUGEE CAMPS, AND
[00:44:37] CARRYING OUT MASS ARRESTS WHILE
[00:44:40] SETTLER VIOLENCE IS
[00:44:43] INTENSIFYING. IT IS SHOCKING
[00:44:46] THAT THE TRAINING CENTER OF
[00:44:48] ANGRA HAS BEEN FORCIBLY STORMED
[00:44:51] ON TWO OCCASIONS. THE PROTECTION
[00:44:54] OF CIVILIANS IS NOT AN EMPTY CATCHWORD, BUT AN OBLIGATION.
[00:44:57] UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT THE OCCUPYING POWER MUST FULFILL.
[00:45:00] ISRAEL MUST IMPLEMENT. SECURITY
[00:45:04] COUNCIL RESOLUTION 2334 CEASE
[00:45:06] SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES, CURB
[00:45:08] SETTLER VIOLENCE, AND ENSURE
[00:45:11] STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY. THE AGENCY'S NORMAL FUNCTIONING, IN
[00:45:15] ACCORDANCE WITH ITS MANDATE,
[00:45:16] MUST BE RESPECTED THE SITUATION
[00:45:20] IN GAZA IS EQUALLY CONCERNING. EVEN AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY
[00:45:23] THE BOARD OF PEACE OF PROGRESS ON THE SECOND PHASE OF THE
[00:45:26] CEASEFIRE. ISRAEL HAS CONTINUED
[00:45:29] TO REFUSE TO HALT ITS
[00:45:32] OPERATIONS. IT HAS NOW BEEN MORE
[00:45:37] THAN 300 DAYS SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE PEACE AGREEMENT OF THE CEASE FIRE AGREEMENT. YET A
[00:45:40] LASTING CEASEFIRE HAS YET TO BE ACHIEVED. THE CURRENT SITUATION IS NOT DUE TO A LACK OF CEASE
[00:45:44] FIRE PROPOSAL, BUT A LACK OF
[00:45:46] POLITICAL WILL TO IMPLEMENT ONE. CHINA CALLS ON ISRAEL AND ALL
[00:45:50] RELEVANT PARTIES TO IMPLEMENT, FULLY AND IN GOOD FAITH, THE
[00:45:54] GAZA CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT, AND URGES ISRAEL TO COMPLY WITH
[00:45:57] INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
[00:46:00] BY LIFTING RESTRICTIONS ON THE ENTRY OF HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES.
[00:46:03] COUNTRIES THAT HAVE SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE OVER THE PARTIES TO
[00:46:06] TAKE CONCRETE ACTIONS TO DE-ESCALATE THE SITUATION.
[00:46:09] THIRD, WE MUST STAY THE COURSE AND MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO
[00:46:12] REVITALIZE THE POLITICAL PROSPECTS OF THE TWO STATE SOLUTION. THE TWO STATE SOLUTION
[00:46:16] IS THE ONLY VIABLE PATH TO RESOLVING THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE,
[00:46:20] AS RECOGNIZED BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. ANY
[00:46:22] HESITATION, SKEPTICISM, OR
[00:46:26] WAVERING IS UNACCEPTABLE. BOTH GAZA AND THE WEST BANK ARE
[00:46:29] INTEGRAL PARTS OF THE STATE OF PALESTINE. ISRAEL MUST END ITS ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF THE
[00:46:33] PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES AS SOON
[00:46:37] AS POSSIBLE, AND CEASE UNDERMINING THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES OF THE PALESTINIAN
[00:46:40] NATIONAL AUTHORITY. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD
[00:46:43] FULLY RESPECT THE WILL OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, ADVANCE
[00:46:47] POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION IN GAZA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLE
[00:46:50] OF PALESTINIANS GOVERNING PALESTINE. RETURN TO THE CORRECT
[00:46:53] PATH OF THE TWO STATE SOLUTION, AND REALIZE THE EARLY
[00:46:56] ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT
[00:46:59] PALESTINIAN STATE. ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN PEACE FOR COEXISTENCE
[00:47:02] BETWEEN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL BE ACHIEVED. LASTING PEACE AND
[00:47:05] STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
[00:47:08] MADAM PRESIDENT, ON THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE, CHINA HAS ALWAYS
[00:47:12] BEEN ON THE SIDE OF PEACE,
[00:47:16] JUSTICE, AND CONSCIENCE. CHINA WILL, AS ALWAYS, SUPPORT THE
[00:47:19] JUST CAUSE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE TO REALIZE THEIR
[00:47:22] LEGITIMATE NATIONAL RIGHTS WORK. TO BRING AN EARLY END TO THE
[00:47:25] SUFFERING OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, AND MAKE UNREMITTING
[00:47:29] EFFORTS TO RESTORE STABILITY TO THE REGION, AND TO BRING PEACE
[00:47:33] TO ITS PEOPLE. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF CHINA FOR THE STATEMENT, AND I
[00:47:37] NOW GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE
[00:47:38] REPRESENTATIVE OF BAHRAIN.
[00:47:44] >> PRESIDENT, WE COMMEND THE CONVENING OF THIS TIMELY MEETING
[00:47:48] IN SUCH OR AT SUCH A SENSITIVE
[00:47:52] TIME. WE THANK THE BRIEFERS MR.
[00:47:55] RAMOS, ALAKBAROV SULEIMAN,
[00:48:00] EXECUTIVE DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNICEF, FOR THEIR
[00:48:03] BRIEFINGS. WE STRESS THE FOLLOWING. THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN HAS HAS SUPPORTED
[00:48:07] INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL EFFORTS TO END THE CONFLICT IN
[00:48:10] THE GAZA STRIP, INCLUDING THE
[00:48:13] COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO END THE GAZA CONFLICT AND THE ROLE
[00:48:16] UNDERTAKEN BY THE BOARD OF PEACE
[00:48:18] TO SUPPORT PRACTICAL MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN STABILITY,
[00:48:21] RECONSTRUCTION, IMPROVE THE LIVING CONDITIONS, AND PAVE THE
[00:48:24] WAY FOR A CREDIBLE AND SERIOUS
[00:48:27] PEACE PROCESS. THE KINGDOM
[00:48:30] STRESSES THAT THE SUCCESS OF ANY PEACE PROCESS REQUIRES THAT WE
[00:48:34] ADDRESS THE ESCALATION IN THE
[00:48:36] WEST BANK, WHICH UNDERMINES
[00:48:39] CONFIDENCE AND WEAKENS THE
[00:48:40] OPPORTUNITY EXPANSION OF
[00:48:47] SETTLEMENTS, THE SEIZURE OF
[00:48:49] LAND, THE DEMOLITION OF HOMES
[00:48:52] AND SCHOOLS, INCLUDING
[00:48:54] RESTRICTIONS ON CITIES AND CAMPS, AS WELL AS RISING
[00:48:58] VIOLENCE BY SETTLERS, AND THE
[00:48:59] ATTEMPTS TO IMPOSE A UNILATERAL
[00:49:02] REALITY. THIS HAS STOKED THE SUFFERING OF CIVILIANS,
[00:49:05] INCLUDING THAT OF CHILDREN, AND
[00:49:07] UNDERMINED EFFORTS FOR CALM AND
[00:49:10] PEACE WE AREN'T CONCERNED BY
[00:49:15] THE ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
[00:49:17] IN THE WEST BANK. THIS RISE HAS
[00:49:21] BEEN UNPRECEDENTED. 76 PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS HAVE BEEN
[00:49:24] KILLED SINCE EARLY 2026,
[00:49:28] ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS. WE STRESS THE NEED TO PROTECT CIVILIANS, INCLUDING CHILDREN,
[00:49:32] FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS
[00:49:34] HIGHLY DANGEROUS ESCALATION. WE WARN AGAINST THE CONSEQUENCES OF
[00:49:37] UNILATERAL POLICIES, PRACTICES
[00:49:41] AND MEASURES THAT AIM THAT ARE
[00:49:43] AIMED TO IMPOSE A UNILATERAL
[00:49:47] REALITY. THEY RUN COUNTER TO INTERNATIONAL LAW, INCLUDING
[00:49:50] IAEA, AS WELL AS RELEVANT
[00:49:52] SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS. IN ADDITION TO THE INALIENABLE
[00:49:55] RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, THEY RUN COUNTER
[00:49:59] INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS ON THE
[00:50:02] REJECTION OF THE ANNEXATION OF
[00:50:05] PALESTINIAN TERRITORY. VIOLATIONS AGAINST MUSLIM AND
[00:50:09] CHRISTIAN HOLY SITES ARE AIMED
[00:50:10] AT ALTERING THE IDENTITY OF
[00:50:13] JERUSALEM, AND THEY CAUSE TENSION AS THEY OUTRAGE THE
[00:50:17] CONSCIENCE OF MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS
[00:50:20] THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN STRESSES THE
[00:50:24] IMPORTANCE OF SPREADING
[00:50:27] CO-EXISTENCE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING TO COUNTER
[00:50:30] EXTREMIST BEHAVIORS AND IDEOLOGIES. WE STRESS THE NEED
[00:50:34] TO RESPECT THE HISTORIC AND LEGAL STATUS QUO OF HOLY SITES.
[00:50:38] WE STRESS THE NEED TO END VIOLATIONS PERPETRATED,
[00:50:40] INCLUDING.
[00:50:43] >> EXCAVATIONS UNDER AND AROUND AL-AQSA MOSQUE. WE UNDERLINE
[00:50:47] THAT THE HOLY AQSA MOSQUE AND
[00:50:53] AL-QUDS AL-SHARIF IN THEIR ENTIRETY, CONSTITUTE A HOLY SITE
[00:50:55] FOR MUSLIMS. THE MANAGEMENT OF
[00:50:58] AL-AQSA MOSQUE IS THEREFORE
[00:51:01] SUBJECT TO TO THE HISTORIC HASHEMITE CUSTODIANSHIP OVER
[00:51:04] MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN HOLY SITES
[00:51:06] IN AL AL-SHARIF. IN THIS REGARD,
[00:51:11] WE COMMEND THE MEETING, HELD IN
[00:51:14] A MAN ON THE 5th OF AUGUST. IN
[00:51:17] CONCLUSION, THE KINGDOM OF
[00:51:21] BAHRAIN STRESSES THAT JERUSALEM
[00:51:23] IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF PALESTINE, WHICH ENCOMPASSES THE
[00:51:26] WEST BANK AND GAZA. IT IS THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF
[00:51:30] PALESTINE THAT MUST BE
[00:51:32] ESTABLISHED 1967. BORDERS A
[00:51:36] STATE THAT LIVES SIDE BY SIDE IN PEACE AND SECURITY WITH ISRAEL TO PAVE THE WAY FOR THE TWO
[00:51:40] STATE SOLUTION AND ENSURE
[00:51:43] REGIONAL INTEGRATION TO FOSTER STABILITY, SECURITY AND PROSPERITY FOR ALL PEOPLES OF
[00:51:47] THE REGION. I THANK YOU. >> OF BAHRAIN FOR THE STATEMENT,
[00:51:50] AND I NOW GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE
[00:51:54] REPRESENTATIVE OF SOMALIA
[00:51:57] >> ME TO BEGIN BY THANKING
[00:52:00] DEPUTY SPECIAL AKBAROV AND
[00:52:02] UNICEF DEPUTY EXECUTIVE THEIR
[00:52:06] UPDATES AND FOR THE UN'S
[00:52:08] CONTINUED WORK IN THE OCCUPIED
[00:52:11] PALESTINIAN TERRITORY. SOMALIA
[00:52:17] THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK, INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM. THE
[00:52:21] PAST WEEKS HAVE SEEN MORE
[00:52:23] CIVILIAN DEATHS, INJURIES,
[00:52:26] DISPLACEMENT AND DESTRUCTION
[00:52:28] WORSENING AN ALREADY
[00:52:31] HUMANITARIAN AND SECURITY
[00:52:33] SITUATION. WE UNEQUIVOCALLY
[00:52:37] CONDEMN THE GROWING VIOLENCE AND
[00:52:40] TERRORISM FROM ISRAELI SETTLERS AGAINST PALESTINIAN COMMUNITIES,
[00:52:44] OFTEN IN A CONTEXT WHERE
[00:52:45] PALESTINIANS ARE LEFT
[00:52:50] UNPROTECTED THESE ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS ARE NOT ISOLATED.
[00:52:54] INCIDENTS. THEY ARE HAPPENING IN A WIDER CONTEXT OF LONG STANDING
[00:52:58] OCCUPATION, SETTLEMENT
[00:53:02] EXPANSION, DEMOLITIONS,
[00:53:07] EVICTIONS, MILITARY OPERATIONS,
[00:53:10] MOVEMENT AND ONGOING SETTLER
[00:53:15] VIOLENCE. TOGETHER, THESE FACTORS ARE ERODING THE
[00:53:17] FOUNDATION OF PALESTINIAN LIFE
[00:53:19] IN THE WEST BANK. JANUARY 2025,
[00:53:25] OVER 33,000 PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN FORCIBLY DISPLACED BY
[00:53:29] ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATIONS
[00:53:31] ENGINEERING THE LARGEST
[00:53:38] DISPLACEMENT SINCE 1967. LIVES
[00:53:43] REMAIN AT IMMINENT RISK. SETTLER
[00:53:48] VIOLENCE IS A MAJOR DRIVER OF
[00:53:50] THIS CRISIS, WITH MORE THAN 1800
[00:53:54] ATTACKS IN 2020 ALONE, AFFECTING
[00:53:58] SOME 280 PALESTINIAN
[00:54:02] COMMUNITIES. THIS PATTERN MUST
[00:54:06] BE INCLUDING THOSE IN EAST
[00:54:13] JERUSALEM, FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF
[00:54:17] INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND SECURITY
[00:54:24] A WORRYING DEVELOPMENT HAS ALSO
[00:54:26] BEEN SEEN IN THE INCREASING USE
[00:54:29] OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HERITAGE CLAIMS TO JUSTIFY SETTLEMENT
[00:54:32] EXPANSIONS AND RESTRICT
[00:54:35] PALESTINIAN ACCESS TO LAND AND
[00:54:39] HOLY SITES. ALL THAT ALTER THE
[00:54:41] STATUS OR DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE
[00:54:48] AND REVERSE IMMEDIATELY
[00:54:52] PARTICULARLY ALARMED BY MEASURES
[00:54:54] THAT FRAGMENT THE PALESTINIAN
[00:54:57] TERRITORY THREATEN ITS VIABILITY
[00:54:59] AS A CONTIGUOUS CONTINUED
[00:55:04] SETTLEMENT EXPANSION UNDERMINES NOT JUST FUTURE NEGOTIATIONS,
[00:55:07] BUT THE VERY BASIS OF THE TWO
[00:55:13] STATE SOLUTION. HEARD, THE SITUATION FOR CHILDREN DEMANDS
[00:55:16] URGENT ATTENTION. PALESTINIAN
[00:55:18] CHILDREN ARE FACING VIOLENCE,
[00:55:22] DISPLACEMENT, DETENTION, ABUSE AND DISRUPTION OF THEIR
[00:55:26] EDUCATION PROLONGED INSECURITY
[00:55:29] IS INFLICTING SEVERE
[00:55:32] PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS. SCHOOL
[00:55:34] CLOSURES, MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS
[00:55:37] AND ATTACKS ON EDUCATION HAVE
[00:55:39] BECOME AN ALARMINGLY COMMON THE
[00:55:43] ONGOING FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE
[00:55:45] DISRUPTIONS TO SCHOOLS MAKE
[00:55:49] MATTERS WORSE. CHILDREN MUST NOT
[00:55:51] GROW UP SEEING VIOLENCE,
[00:55:55] OCCUPATION AND DISPLACEMENT AS A
[00:55:57] NORMAL DAILY OCCURRENCE. THEIR
[00:56:00] PROTECTION, INFRASTRUCTURE MUST
[00:56:07] BE GUARANTEED UNDER
[00:56:11] INTERNATIONAL THE IMPACT, DEAR
[00:56:14] COLLEAGUES, GOES BEYOND
[00:56:17] RESTRICTIONS ON MOVEMENT AND ACCESS ARE AFFECTING HEALTH
[00:56:20] CARE, LIVELIHOODS AND
[00:56:25] SANITATION, AND ARE MAKING IT HARDER FOR HUMANITARIAN
[00:56:29] ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE
[00:56:30] ASSISTANCE. HUMANITARIAN WORKERS
[00:56:33] THEMSELVES FACE GROWING DANGER
[00:56:35] AND OBSTACLES. WE ARE ESPECIALLY
[00:56:38] CONCERNED BY THE RECENT
[00:56:42] INCURSIONS INTO PREMISES IN EAST JERUSALEM, INCLUDING REPEATED
[00:56:45] UNAUTHORIZED ENTRIES BY ISRAELI
[00:56:48] SECURITY FORCES. SUCH INCIDENTS
[00:56:52] CANNOT BE NORMALIZED UN PREMISES
[00:56:57] MUST BE RESPECTED AND PROTECTED,
[00:56:58] AND ALL WALZ VITAL WORK MUST NOT
[00:57:02] BE JEOPARDIZED. SOMALIA IS ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE
[00:57:04] DETERIORATING SITUATION FACING
[00:57:07] THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY ESPECIALLY WITH THE OCCUPYING
[00:57:10] POWERS. WITHHOLDING OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF COLLECTED TAX
[00:57:14] REVENUES, WHICH UNDERMINE THE
[00:57:19] PROVISION BASIC SERVICES, WEAKENING PALESTINIAN
[00:57:22] INSTITUTIONS. WHILE SETTLEMENT
[00:57:25] EXPANSION ACCELERATES, MOVES US
[00:57:28] FURTHER FROM PEACE
[00:57:33] ACCOUNTABILITY IS ESSENTIAL.
[00:57:34] VIOLENCE RESTRAINT AND
[00:57:41] DE-ESCALATION THE ROOT CAUSES,
[00:57:47] WHICH ARE ENTRENCHED IN
[00:57:50] OCCUPATION, SETTLEMENT,
[00:57:53] EXPANSION, AND THE LACK OF
[00:57:56] CREDIBLE POLITICAL HORIZON THE
[00:58:00] WEST BANK AND GAZA ARE ONE
[00:58:11] IGNORES THIS WILL NOT BRING
[00:58:14] LASTING PEACE OF THE PALESTINIAN
[00:58:20] PEOPLE TO SELF-DETERMINATION,
[00:58:22] AND TO AN INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN STATE OF PALESTINE.
[00:58:26] BASED ON THE 1967 BORDERS WITH
[00:58:31] AL-QUDS AL-SHARIF AS ITS
[00:58:31] CAPITAL. THE COUNCIL MUST ENSURE
[00:58:35] THAT WE CALL ON ISRAEL AS THE
[00:58:44] OCCUPYING POWER FOR AN IMMEDIATE
[00:58:54] HUMANITARIAN ACCESS
[00:59:05] ETHNIC CLEANSING AND CRIMES
[00:59:09] AGAINST HUMANITY MADAM
[00:59:10] PRESIDENT, ABOVE ALL COMMUNITY
[00:59:16] AND THIS COUNCIL TURNS COMMITMENT THE TWO STATE
[00:59:19] SOLUTION INTO MEANINGFUL ACTION,
[00:59:22] WE ARE MAINTAINING THE STATUS
[00:59:25] QUO OF ISRAELI OCCUPATION,
[00:59:29] PERPETUAL VIOLENCE, AND
[00:59:32] SUFFERING PALESTINIANS,
[00:59:34] INCLUDING CHILDREN AND THE
[00:59:36] PEOPLE YOU.
[00:59:39] >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF
[00:59:42] SOMALIA FOR THE STATEMENT, AND I NOW GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED
[00:59:46] STATES. >> THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT,
[00:59:49] AND THANK YOU TO OUR BRIEFERS THIS MORNING. AS THE UNITED
[00:59:52] STATES HAS SAID MANY TIMES, WE
[00:59:55] STRONGLY CONDEMN VIOLENCE BY ANY
[00:59:57] PARTY IN THE WEST BANK. THE
[01:00:01] UNITED STATES APPRECIATES THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S
[01:00:03] CONDEMNATION OF. AND THE INCREASED ACTIONS TO COUNTER
[01:00:06] VIOLENCE IN THE WEST BANK ISRAEL
[01:00:09] HAS TAKEN SPECIFIC STEPS, SUCH AS INCREASING LAW ENFORCEMENT
[01:00:13] ACTIONS TO BOOSTING THE IDF
[01:00:17] PRESENCE AND TO ALLOCATING SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL RESOURCES
[01:00:19] TO COUNTER VIOLENCE THE UNITED
[01:00:22] STATES WILL CONTINUE TO WORK CONSTRUCTIVELY TO INCREASE
[01:00:26] SECURITY, REDUCE TENSIONS, AND ENHANCE STABILITY THAT IS
[01:00:30] BENEFICIAL FOR BOTH ISRAELIS AND
[01:00:33] PALESTINIANS ALIKE. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 20 POINT PLAN TO END
[01:00:36] THE GAZA CONFLICT MAKES CLEAR
[01:00:39] THAT THE PA MUST VERIFIABLY
[01:00:42] COMPLETE A SLATE OF REFORMS. THE
[01:00:45] UNITED STATES WILL NOT ACCEPT COMPENSATION FOR TERRORISM UNDER
[01:00:48] THE GUISE OF WELFARE, OR THROUGH
[01:00:51] ANY OTHER ATTEMPTS TO EVADE DETECTION UNDER A DIFFERENT
[01:00:53] NAME. THE UNITED STATES
[01:00:56] REITERATES ITS OPPOSITION TO
[01:00:58] ANNEXATION OF THE WEST BANK. THE
[01:01:01] SECURITY COUNCIL MUST CONTINUE
[01:01:05] TO SHOW OUR STRONG SUPPORT TO THE PORT OF PEACE AND THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE
[01:01:08] ADMINISTRATION OF GAZA. THEY ARE
[01:01:10] WORKING TO ADVANCE PRESIDENT
[01:01:13] TRUMP'S PEACE PLAN, WHICH THIS
[01:01:14] COUNCIL ENDORSED IN ITS HISTORIC
[01:01:17] RESOLUTION 2803 LAST NOVEMBER. WE ALSO WELCOME THE PROGRESS
[01:01:21] THAT THE BOARD, THAT THE BOARD AND THE NCAC HAVE ACHIEVED SO
[01:01:25] FAR. THIS INCLUDES BOOSTING
[01:01:28] HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE WITH SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE TO MINIMIZE
[01:01:32] HAMAS'S STEALING AND LOOTING OF
[01:01:34] RESOURCES. WE FURTHER WELCOME THE MILESTONE ACHIEVED AT THE
[01:01:37] END OF JULY, WHEN HAMAS FINALLY,
[01:01:40] AND FOR THE FIRST TIME,
[01:01:43] COMMITTED TO AN ACTIONABLE PLAN
[01:01:46] FOR ITS DISARMAMENT. ALL PARTIES
[01:01:47] MUST BUILD ON THIS MOMENTUM TO
[01:01:50] FULL AND IRREVERSIBLE DISARMAMENT AND ENSURE THAT GAZA
[01:01:54] IS NEVER AGAIN A LAUNCHING PAD FOR THREATS TO ISRAEL'S NATIONAL
[01:01:57] SECURITY. THIS PATH FORWARD, AS
[01:02:00] THE BOARD OF PEACE HAS NOTED, HOLDS THE PROMISE OF DELIVERING
[01:02:04] SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS TO THE
[01:02:05] PEOPLE OF GAZA. THANK YOU.
[01:02:08] >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THEIR
[01:02:11] STATEMENT, AND I SHALL NOW MAKE A STATEMENT IN MY CAPACITY AS
[01:02:15] THE REPRESENTATIVE OF DENMARK, AND I WOULD LIKE TO START BY
[01:02:20] THANKING DEPUTY SPECIAL
[01:02:22] COORDINATOR AND DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SULEIMAN FOR THE
[01:02:25] BRIEFINGS. WHAT WE'VE HEARD
[01:02:27] TODAY IS NOT JUST STATISTICS, AS DID. SULEIMAN STRESSED THIS
[01:02:31] MORNING. IT IS THE DAILY REALITY OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN LIVING
[01:02:34] UNDER THE THREAT OF SETTLER
[01:02:37] VIOLENCE, LOSS OF LIVELIHOOD AND
[01:02:41] DISPLACEMENT. THESE REALITIES WERE ALSO REITERATED IN THE
[01:02:43] INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL
[01:02:45] COMMISSION OF INQUIRY'S REPORT, EXAMINING VIOLATIONS AND CRIMES
[01:02:48] AGAINST PALESTINIAN CHILDREN
[01:02:50] THAT WAS PUBLISHED IN JUNE TIME,
[01:02:53] WE HEAR THAT JULY WAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY DEADLY MONTH IN
[01:02:56] THE CONTEXT OF SETTLER RELATED VIOLENCE. THIS IS WHY DENMARK,
[01:03:00] TOGETHER WITH FRANCE, GREECE,
[01:03:02] LATVIA AND THE UK, SUPPORTED BY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, CALLED
[01:03:06] FOR THIS URGENT MEETING. COLLEAGUES. THE TWO STATE
[01:03:10] SOLUTION, AS CHARTED IN THE RESOLUTIONS OF THIS COUNCIL,
[01:03:13] REMAINS THE ONLY VIABLE PATH TO
[01:03:17] RESOLVING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT.
[01:03:21] LAST SEPTEMBER, 142 STATES REAFFIRMED THEIR SUPPORT FOR
[01:03:23] THIS VISION. IN THE NEW YORK
[01:03:26] DECLARATION. BUT FOR THIS VISION TO MATERIALIZE. THE CURRENT
[01:03:29] TRAJECTORY IN THE WEST BANK MUST URGENTLY BE REVERSED. WE WOULD
[01:03:33] LIKE TO EMPHASIZE, FOR URGENT
[01:03:36] MATTERS. FIRST, SETTLER AND
[01:03:39] THOSE RESPONSIBLE MUST BE HELD
[01:03:43] ACCOUNTABLE. NO PALESTINIAN CHILD SHOULD WITNESS HOMES SET
[01:03:45] ABLAZE. ACCESS TO SCHOOLS
[01:03:48] HAMPERED. DESTROYED LIVELIHOODS. UNBLOCKED WATER SOURCES. WE URGE
[01:03:51] THE ISRAELI AUTHORITIES TO TAKE IMMEDIATE MEASURES TO PREVENT
[01:03:55] VIOLENCE, PROTECT CIVILIANS AND
[01:03:57] ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY. THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS RECENTLY PUT
[01:04:01] MORE EXTREMIST ISRAELI SETTLERS AND ORGANIZATIONS RESPONSIBLE
[01:04:05] FOR SERIOUS AND SYSTEMATIC HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AGAINST
[01:04:07] PALESTINIANS. UNDER SANCTIONS.
[01:04:10] SECOND, THE EXPANSION OF ILLEGAL
[01:04:12] SETTLEMENTS MUST END
[01:04:14] IMMEDIATELY. WE REMAIN DEEPLY CONCERNED BY THE POTENTIAL
[01:04:18] ISSUING OF TENDERS FOR THE E1
[01:04:20] SETTLEMENT, WHICH THREATENS TO SEPARATE EAST JERUSALEM FROM THE
[01:04:23] REST OF THE WEST BANK AND DIVIDE
[01:04:25] THE WEST BANK IN TWO. WE URGE
[01:04:28] BUSINESSES TO BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL LEGAL, FINANCIAL AND
[01:04:31] REPUTATIONAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH BIDDING FOR THESE
[01:04:35] CONTRACTS. WE ONCE AGAIN STRESS
[01:04:37] THAT SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION
[01:04:39] 2334 MUST BE FULLY IMPLEMENTED.
[01:04:43] THIRD, PALESTINIAN CHILDREN DESERVE TO GROW UP UNDER A
[01:04:46] FUNCTIONING, EFFECTIVE, AND REFORM PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
[01:04:49] ABLE TO PAY SALARIES AND PROVIDE ESSENTIAL SERVICES. WE THEREFORE
[01:04:53] REITERATE OUR CALL FOR ISRAEL TO RELEASE WITHHELD TAX REVENUES
[01:04:56] AND FOR THE PA TO CONTINUE ITS
[01:04:58] IMPORTANT WORK ON NECESSARY
[01:05:01] REFORMS, INCLUDING ON DEMOCRACY
[01:05:04] AND GOOD GOVERNANCE. FINALLY, THE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WEST
[01:05:07] BANK CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM WHAT HAPPENS IN GAZA. THE
[01:05:11] STABILITY OF BOTH GAZA AND THE WEST BANK IS CRITICAL TO ANY
[01:05:13] LASTING PEACE, INCLUDING TO ISRAEL'S LONG TERM SECURITY. IT
[01:05:17] IS IN THE INTEREST OF BOTH
[01:05:21] PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS TO TRANSITION GAZA FROM WAR TO
[01:05:24] PEACE. WE TOOK NOTE OF THE RECENT NEWS OF PROGRESS TOWARDS
[01:05:27] AN AGREEMENT ON THE DISARMAMENT OF HAMAS, AND URGE ALL PARTIES
[01:05:30] TO FULLY RESPECT TO REACH A FULL
[01:05:33] AGREEMENT ON THIS DECISIVE
[01:05:36] ISSUE. AND WE CONTINUE TO CALL ON ALL PARTIES TO FULLY RESPECT
[01:05:40] THE CEASEFIRE ON HAMAS, TO DISARM, AND ON ISRAEL TO ENSURE
[01:05:44] THE PHASED WITHDRAWAL OF THE IDF, IN LINE WITH RESOLUTION
[01:05:47] 2803, AS WELL AS TO ENSURE
[01:05:50] UNHINDERED HUMANITARIAN AID A LASTING CEASEFIRE WILL LAY THE
[01:05:53] GROUNDWORK FOR EARLY RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION. IN THIS
[01:05:57] REGARD, WE WELCOME THAT THE EU HAS LAUNCHED THE TEAM GAZA
[01:06:00] INITIATIVE, WHICH DENMARK IS A PART OF. THIS INITIATIVE WILL
[01:06:04] CONTRIBUTE TO THE MUCH NEEDED EARLY RECOVERY EFFORTS IN GAZA,
[01:06:07] INCLUDING INCLUSIVE, CRUCIAL
[01:06:09] AREAS OF WATER, INFRASTRUCTURE,
[01:06:12] REMOVAL OF RUBBLE AND WASTE THE
[01:06:15] WEST BANK THREATEN THE VISION OF A TWO STATE SOLUTION THAT WE, AS
[01:06:20] INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ELABORATED IN SO MANY RESOLUTIONS AND DECLARATIONS
[01:06:23] OVER THE PAST DECADES. THE LONGER WE WAIT, THE LESS
[01:06:27] REALISTIC THAT VISION BECOMES. THIS COUNCIL MUST STAY LOYAL TO
[01:06:31] ITS DECISIONS AND ENSURE THE
[01:06:32] IMPLEMENTATION OF A TWO STATE
[01:06:35] SOLUTION REUNITING GAZA AND THE WEST BANK, INCLUDING EAST
[01:06:39] JERUSALEM, UNDER A REFORMED PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP. ALONG
[01:06:43] THE 1967 BORDERS, TWO STATES
[01:06:45] WHERE ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS
[01:06:47] CAN LIVE SIDE BY SIDE IN PEACE
[01:06:51] AND SECURITY. AND I NOW RESUME MY FUNCTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE
[01:06:54] COUNCIL. I NOW GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE PERMANENT OBSERVER OF THE
[01:06:58] OBSERVER STATE OF PALESTINE.
[01:07:29] >> CRITICAL SITUATION AND ONGOING ESCALATION BY ISRAELI
[01:07:33] OCCUPATION FORCES AND SETTLERS
[01:07:36] IN THE WEST BANK ALLOW ME ALSO
[01:07:40] TO THANK
[01:08:08] THE DEPUTY TO THE VERY CLEAR
[01:08:15] FROM ALL OF YOU WITH
[01:08:23] ISRAELI OCCUPYING AND THE
[01:08:28] SETTLERS AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN
[01:08:33] CHILDREN. AND WE APPRECIATE THIS
[01:08:35] VERY SENTIMENT. AND AS MANY OF
[01:08:41] YOU HAVE INDICATED, WHAT IS
[01:08:44] NEEDED IS ACTION. YOU ARE THE
[01:08:46] SECURITY
[01:08:56] YOUR WILL AND RESOLUTIONS ARE
[01:08:58] NOT CONTINUE DISRESPECTING
[01:09:04] LISTENING TO ANY ONE OF US, TO
[01:09:09] BE ACCOUNTABLE, AND TO BE
[01:09:12] BROUGHT TO FROM EACH MEMBER OF
[01:09:21] THIS ESTEEMED ORGANIZATION, THE UNITED NATIONS. WE CANNOT
[01:09:25] CONTINUE
[01:09:43] RESPECT ITS OBLIGATION AS A MEMBER OF THIS ORGANIZATION. AND
[01:09:46] WE DO NOT ACT. WE CAN ACT. WE
[01:09:50] SHOULD ACT
[01:10:13] TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. AND YOU
[01:10:15] HAVE TOOLS AVAILABLE TO YOU TO
[01:10:18] ACT. MADAM , ISRAEL'S OBJECTIVE
[01:10:22] REMAINS THE SAME. SEIZING
[01:10:43] DEMOLITIONS, DISCRIMINATORY
[01:10:44] LAWS, AND ANNEXATION MEASURES.
[01:10:50] TOOLS AND EXCUSES MAY VARY, BUT
[01:10:52] THE PATTERN IS ALWAYS THE SAME.
[01:10:56] UPROOTING
[01:11:11] NEARLY 160 STATES, WE
[01:11:23] HAVE 160 COUNTRIES THE GREAT
[01:11:31] MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
[01:11:32] SECURITY COUNCIL.
[01:11:41] SO THEREFORE, WE NEED THE
[01:11:45] INTERNATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL,
[01:11:47] TO HELP THE STATE RUTHLESS
[01:11:53] OCCUPATION, ILLEGAL
[01:12:09] RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE.
[01:12:20] VICIOUS. IF THERE IS SUCH A
[01:12:22] THING THE WAY, AND THE PATH OF
[01:12:28] ENDING THIS ILLEGAL OCCUPATION,
[01:12:30] THAT IS THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF
[01:12:34] ENDING THIS ILLEGAL AND MANY OF
[01:12:41] YOU HAVE EXERCISED THAT DURING
[01:12:43] THE TIME OF PUTTING AN END TO
[01:12:49] OCCUPATION AND CONTROL. IN THE
[01:12:51] PAST.
[01:13:05] END THIS EVIL SYSTEM IMPOSED
[01:13:17] ALL THE EVIL THINGS THAT THE UN
[01:13:19] REPORTS DESCRIBE AND OTHER NGOS,
[01:13:26] ORGANIZATIONS DESCRIBE AS WELL
[01:13:35] RESPECT AND HONOR INTERNATIONAL
[01:13:38] OBLIGATIONS AS MEMBERS OF THE
[01:13:41] UNITED NATIONS AND THE PRINCIPLES ENSHRINED IN THE
[01:13:43] CHARTER OF THE UN, IS TO HELP US
[01:13:46] TO. TO PUT AN
[01:13:56] WE LOST THOUSANDS, TENS YEARS
[01:14:05] ALONE INDEPENDENCE OF OUR STATE.
[01:14:15] WE NEED THE HELP OF THOSE WHO
[01:14:17] BELIEVE IN THE SAME . AND WE
[01:14:23] APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT SOME OF YOU TOOK SOME MEASURES, BUT
[01:14:26] THERE IS MORE THAT NEED TO BE
[01:14:28] DONE, BECAUSE THE ILLEGAL
[01:14:35] OCCUPATION, IS REFUSING ABIDE BY
[01:14:37] EVERYTHING THAT YOU DESCRIBE,
[01:14:45] INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE.
[01:14:47] THEN WHAT SHOULD WE DO? JUST
[01:14:50] KEEP AND USE TOOLS AVAILABLE TO
[01:15:05] BUT THERE IS MORE THAT NEED TO
[01:15:08] BE DONE SO THAT THIS ILLEGAL
[01:15:11] OCCUPATION CANNOT FEEL
[01:15:26] TELLING YOU, BY PAYING A HEAVY PRICE. WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER.
[01:15:30] WE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE OF OUR
[01:15:37] STATE, AND THE RIGHT OF THE
[01:15:40] REFUGEES ALL OF YOU WHO FACED
[01:15:48] SIMILAR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.
[01:15:58] AND WE EXPECT SUPPORT FROM YOU
[01:16:03] TO THE PALESTINIAN STATE,
[01:16:06] RECOGNIZED BY NEARLY 160 STATES
[01:16:08] AROUND THE WORLD, ISRAEL OPPOSES
[01:16:13] THE SETTLER STATES. ARMED
[01:16:16] UNHINGED WITH ITS FULL SUPPORT
[01:16:17] AND COMPLICITY ENVIRONMENT FOR
[01:16:22] VIOLENCE BY ITS SOLDIERS AND ITS
[01:16:24] SETTLERS. GUARANTEED THEM
[01:16:27] EFFECTIVE IMPUNITY UNLEASHED
[01:16:31] THEM AGAINST PALESTINIAN COMMUNITIES, REFUGEE CAMPS AND
[01:16:34] VILLAGES TO TORMENT AND
[01:16:36] TERRORIZE GAVE DETAILS ABOUT
[01:16:40] THESE THINGS. FOR YEARS NOW, WE
[01:16:45] HAVE CALLED FOR INTERNATIONAL
[01:16:58] OF THIS VERY COUNCIL FOR
[01:17:01] DETERRENCE
[01:17:18] MATCH TO THE ISRAELI GRAVE
[01:17:21] BREACHES, NOR ARE THEY. THIS
[01:17:23] DISSUASIVE IN NATURE
[01:18:00] RESOURCES, WHICH MANY OUR
[01:18:05] INSTITUTIONS, WHICH MANY OF YOU
[01:18:08] REFER TO. ISRAEL
[01:18:54] . THROUGH DECADES OF POLICIES
[01:19:03] PEOPLE, DISPLACING AND REPLACING
[01:19:11] OF THESE POLICIES THAT HAVE YET
[01:19:13] TO BE MET WITH AN APPROPRIATE
[01:19:16] RESPONSE, ABLE TO PUT THERE ARE
[01:19:23] SOME ACTIONS WE NEED MORE AND
[01:19:26] MORE AND MORE. THE INTERNATIONAL
[01:19:35] LAW AND THE POSITION OF THE
[01:19:37] SECURITY COUNCIL AND ITS
[01:19:40] RESOLUTIONS IN GAZA
[01:20:08] ON KEY PRINCIPLES NO. NO.
[01:20:12] OCCUPATION. NO
[01:20:23] IN COMMON.
[01:20:45] ANY MEANS. WE ALL SAY.
[01:21:17] PALESTINIAN SELF-DETERMINATION
[01:21:20] AND
[01:21:44] A NUMBER OF THESE EXAMPLES AND
[01:21:48] STATEMENTS
[01:21:59] THE PLAN. ISRAEL
[01:22:16] STOP. LIVES ARE AT
[01:22:41] WE HAVE A COMMON VISION AND A
[01:22:43] COMMON PLAN THEM. THEY MUST BE
[01:22:52] IMPLEMENTED US ARE SAYING WE
[01:22:54] WANT TO IMPLEMENT
[01:23:09] COUNCIL, 2803
[01:23:40] OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.
[01:23:48] WEEKS. WORLD SHOULD SEND AN
[01:23:50] UNEQUIVOCAL SIGNAL THAT IT HAS
[01:23:53] CHARTED A PATH FOR
[01:24:18] OF SHARED PEACE, SECURITY AND
[01:24:22] PROSPERITY
[01:24:35] OCCUPATION WARS LOSS
[01:24:49] PALESTINIANS. WE NEED TO PUT AT
[01:24:52] THE THIS ILLEGAL, VICIOUS
[01:24:56] OCCUPATION TO LEAVE US ALONE AND
[01:25:01] TO ALLOW THE INTERNATIONAL THE
[01:25:06] PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN THEIR
[01:25:08] QUEST FOR FREEDOM, DIGNITY, AND
[01:25:14] PEOPLE THAT THERE IS A PEACEFUL
[01:25:16] PATH THAT AND SECURITY. I APPEAL
[01:25:24] TO YOU. THE
[01:25:46] DESTROYING PALESTINIAN LIVES IS NOT THE PATH THAT LEADS TO
[01:25:48] SECURITY, PEACE, AND ACCEPTANCE.
[01:26:06] THE RIGHTS AND SAFETY OF ALL
[01:26:08] PEOPLES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF
[01:26:10] ALL PRESIDENT.
[01:26:14] >> I THANK THE PERMANENT OBSERVER OF THE OBSERVER STATE
[01:26:17] OF PALESTINE FOR THE STATEMENT, AND I NOW GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE
[01:26:21] REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL.
[01:26:23] >> THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT
[01:26:31] FOLLOWING THE DEVASTATING
[01:26:31] EARTHQUAKE.
[01:26:45] ALL VIOLENCE AGAINST NOT
[01:26:51] TOLERATE EXTREMISM. WE CONFRONT
[01:26:53] DO
[01:27:01] PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS ARE RISING, MAKING UP THE
[01:27:04] MAJORITY OF ATTACKS IN SAMARIA.
[01:27:08] THIS MAY, THERE WERE
[01:27:19] 282 STONE THROWING INCIDENTS
[01:27:26] ATTACKS, 24 ARSON INCIDENTS, AND
[01:27:30] TWO SERIOUS CAR RAMMING ATTACKS.
[01:27:37] APRIL, ACCORDING TO THE ISRAELI
[01:27:39] SECURITY FORCES. ANOTHER 408
[01:27:43] TERRORIST ATTACKS STOPPED BEFORE
[01:27:48] THEY COULD HAPPEN. HOW MANY OF
[01:27:50] YOU HAVE CONDEMNED THESE TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST THE
[01:27:53] JEWS NONE OF THESE ATTACKS WERE
[01:28:00] MENTIONED BY THE BRIEFERS, AND NONE OF THESE ATTACKS WERE
[01:28:02] MENTIONED BY MANY OF YOU ONE
[01:28:10] SIDE OF THE VIOLENCE WHILE
[01:28:13] IGNORING THE OTHER.
[01:28:40] THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2026.
[01:28:44] OPENED 354 INVESTIGATIONS, FILED
[01:28:49] 20 INDICTMENTS, AND ARRESTED 35
[01:28:51] EXTREMISTS. THIS HAS LED TO A
[01:28:53] DECREASE IN EXTREMIST VIOLENCE.
[01:28:56] THERE WERE 116 VIOLENCE IN JUNE,
[01:29:04] DOWN FROM 165 IN MARCH.
[01:29:17] HEBRON. HE WILL FACE
[01:29:25] WE PROSECUTE THESE CRIMES. WE
[01:29:29] HOLD PERPETRATORS ACCOUNTABLE.
[01:29:34] MINISTER, MILITARY LEADERS HAVE ALL MADE CLEAR. ADDRESSING
[01:29:37] EXTREMIST VIOLENCE IS A PRIORITY
[01:29:40] FOR OUR GOVERNMENT. AT THE SAME
[01:29:45] TIME
[01:30:28] THAT RESPONSIBILITY. EVEN AFTER
[01:30:31] PRESIDENTIAL MAHMOUD ABBAS, THE
[01:30:33] US FOR SLAY THROUGH 2025. THEY
[01:30:44] DISTRIBUTED ABOUT $200 MILLION
[01:30:49] TO TERRORISTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
[01:30:52] WE STILL SEE INCITEMENT TO
[01:30:54] VIOLENCE COMMUNITIES. THIS
[01:30:57] DOESN'T STABILIZE THE REGION.
[01:31:01] IT FUELS THE VIOLENCE.
[01:31:12] THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
[01:31:14] THE DANGER THE VIOLENCE IS ENDLESS, AND THE VICTIMS ARE
[01:31:18] REAL. A FEW MONTHS A PALESTINIAN
[01:31:23] TERRORIST INFILTRATED ISRAEL
[01:31:24] FROM THE VILLAGE OF QABATIYA.
[01:31:27] VILLAGE NEAR JENIN, IN THE
[01:31:30] NORTHERN SAMARIA BECERRA, AN
[01:31:37] ISRAELI CITY 25 MILES AWAY. HE
[01:31:40] RAMMED HIS CAR INTO SHIMSHON MORDECHAI STANDING ON THE SIDE
[01:31:44] OF THE ROAD. THEN HE HIT
[01:31:57] RAMMED INTO A WOMAN. SHE WAS
[01:31:59] WAITING FOR AFTER HE RAMMED INTO
[01:32:03] HER, HE STABBED HER UNTIL SHE
[01:32:06] DIED. AVIV WAS ONLY SHE LOVED
[01:32:10] NATURE AND ANIMALS. SHE WAS
[01:32:11] PASSIONATE GOING. HE FOUND ONE
[01:32:22] MORE VICTIM AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CITY WHEN THE TERRORIST
[01:32:24] COULDN'T RUN THE MAN DOWN
[01:32:32] TERROR UNTIL IT WAS NEUTRALIZED.
[01:32:36] WHY WASN'T THERE A SPECIAL
[01:32:39] SESSION BUS STOPS IN JERUSALEM
[01:32:44] AND OTHER EVENTS? MADAM
[01:32:55] . WHEN SPEAKER AFTER SPEAKER
[01:32:57] REFERS
[01:33:09] . JEWS HAVE NEVER BEEN AND WILL
[01:33:12] NEVER BE SETTLERS
[01:33:21] SAMARIA ARE LAW ABIDING
[01:33:24] CITIZENS. THOSE COMMITTING A
[01:33:27] TINY. A TINY FRACTION OF THE
[01:33:30] PEOPLE LIVING THERE. THAT IS
[01:33:37] WHY, WHEN YOU ACTUALLY USE TERM
[01:33:40] SETTLER VIOLENCE, IT IS A
[01:33:42] PROVOCATION.
[01:33:55] COLLECTIVELY, COLLECTIVELY
[01:33:58] LABELS ENTIRE FOR THE CRIMES OF
[01:34:01] THE MARGINAL EXTREMIST MINORITY.
[01:34:04] WHEN ISRAELIS ARE INVOLVED
[01:34:17] RADICALS CARRY OUT ATTACKS YOU
[01:34:20] REFER ONLY TO THE ONES
[01:34:23] RESPONSIBLE. AND THAT IS A STANDARD FOR ALL EXTREMIST
[01:34:27] VIOLENCE AROUND THE WORLD YOU
[01:34:29] KNOW A FEW MONTHS AGO, A RADICAL
[01:34:37] ISLAMIST STABBED TWO JEWS IN
[01:34:38] GOLDERS GREEN, LONDON. DID YOU
[01:34:43] USE THE ATTACK TO LABEL
[01:34:57] OF COURSE NOT. BECAUSE YOU
[01:35:00] UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE AN
[01:35:03] ENTIRE POPULATION. THAT IS NOT
[01:35:11] EXACTLY THE STANDARD BEING APPLIED TO THE JEWISH
[01:35:14] COMMUNITIES IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA
[01:35:19] SO WHEN YOU SAY SETTLER VIOLENCE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? THAT
[01:35:23] HALF A MILLION JEWS ARE
[01:35:25] TERRORISTS
[01:35:42] JEWS HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE IN
[01:35:44] JUDEA AND SAMARIA. THAT IS
[01:35:51] SETTLER. OUR RIGHT
[01:36:05] CONNECTION OF JEWS TO THE LAND.
[01:36:08] THIS PAST WEEK, JEWS AROUND THE
[01:36:24] AND IN ENGLISH. YOU ARE CROSSING
[01:36:27] THE JORDAN RIVER TO INHERIT THE LAND WHICH GOD IS GIVING YOU.
[01:36:30] YOU WILL INHERIT IT AND DWELL IN
[01:36:35] IT AND BEGAN. IT IS WHERE IT
[01:36:43] WILL CONTINUOUS JEWISH PRESENCE
[01:36:47] IN THIS LAND FOR THOUSANDS OF
[01:36:49] YEARS. THE
[01:37:04] OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THIS
[01:37:07] RECOGNIZED BY THE INTERNATIONAL
[01:37:09] COMMUNITY. AFFIRMED THE
[01:37:15] HISTORICAL CONNECTION HOME.
[01:37:22] THERE. THE INTERNATIONAL
[01:37:47] FOR HOURS ABOUT LEGAL RIGHTS TO
[01:37:53] JUDEA AND SAMARIA. BUT IF WE
[01:37:57] WANT TO BE PRACTICAL TODAY, AND IF THIS COUNCIL IS SERIOUS ABOUT
[01:38:00] BRINGING SECURITY IT MUST
[01:38:05] UNDERSTAND A SIMPLE TRUTH. GOING
[01:38:09] ANYWHERE JEWISH COMMUNITIES STAY
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[01:38:31] AND SAMARIA ALONGSIDE OVER 2
[01:38:36] MILLION PALESTINIANS.
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[01:38:54] CHOICE. IT CAN EITHER REPEAT
[01:38:57] RHETORIC THAT THE CONFLICT, OR
[01:39:00] IT CAN SUPPORT EFFORTS.
[01:39:16] >> I THANK THE REPRESENTATIVE OF
[01:39:18] ISRAEL FOR THE STATEMENT. THERE
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[01:41:32] >> YOU LOOK BACK ON WHAT YOU'VE ACHIEVED IN YOUR LIFE. WHAT
[01:41:35] MAKES YOU THE HAPPIEST OF WHAT YOU'VE ACHIEVED SO FAR?
[01:41:37] >> THIS INTERVIEW IS THE ABSOLUTE APEX.
[01:41:41] >> LEADERS SEEM TO LIKE TO WEAR WIGS. HOW COME HE DIDN'T HAVE A
[01:41:43] WIG? PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID, I MADE A MISTAKE THE FIRST TIME. I
[01:41:46] SHOULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU THE FIRST TIME. >> THAT ISN'T WHAT HE SAID.
[01:41:50] >> YOUR FIRST BOOK WAS CALLED A TIME TO KILL. HOW MANY
[01:41:53] PUBLISHERS TURNED THAT DOWN? >> WELL, ALL OF THEM. >> IT'S VERY RARE TO SEE DONALD
[01:41:57] TRUMP LAUGH. HE DOESN'T LIKE TO SMILE. HE HAS WHAT THEY CALL THE STARE. HOW WOULD.
[01:42:01] >> THE STARE. >> WHEN YOU GO TO THE OSCARS THAT EVERYBODY SAY, OH, THERE'S THE AUTHOR.
[01:42:03] >> OF ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE GO THIS WAY. AND THEN THEY HAVE ANOTHER LITTLE PATH IN THE
[01:42:08] OSCARS, WHERE THE PEOPLE LIKE I GO. >> SO YOU WROTE A BOOK ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO LIVED WITH WOLVES.
[01:42:11] >> WHEN I INTERVIEWED A GUY WHO LIVED WITH WOLVES.
[01:42:14] >> YEAH. AND IS THAT SAFE TO DO THAT? >> ABSOLUTELY NOT.
[01:42:16] >> SO I KNOW YOU WERE NOT YOU,
[01:42:23] DAVID.
[01:42:24] >> [MUSIC]
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