{"id":241923,"date":"2020-11-10T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=241923"},"modified":"2020-11-17T22:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T03:15:50","slug":"secretary-general-deeply-saddened-by-palestinian-chief-negotiator-saeb-erekats-death-hails-his-dedication-to-peaceful-pursuit-of-dignity-legitimate-rights-statement","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/secretary-general-deeply-saddened-by-palestinian-chief-negotiator-saeb-erekats-death-hails-his-dedication-to-peaceful-pursuit-of-dignity-legitimate-rights-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary-General, Deeply Saddened by Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat\u2019s, Death, Hails His Dedication to Peaceful Pursuit of Dignity, Legitimate Rights – Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"
SG\/SM\/20408<\/strong>
\n10 NOVEMBER 2020<\/strong><\/h6>\n

The following statement by ±¬ÁÏÍø Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres was issued today:<\/p>\n

I am deeply saddened by the death of Dr.\u00a0Saeb Erekat, Palestine Liberation Organization\u00a0(PLO) Secretary-General and Chief Negotiator for Palestinians in the Middle East Peace Process.<\/p>\n

I am grateful to have known Dr.\u00a0Erekat and to have called him my friend.\u00a0 He was dedicated to the peaceful pursuit of justice, dignity and the legitimate rights of Palestinians to self-determination, sovereignty and statehood.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to continue his crucial work and end the conflict that has tragically affected the lives of so many.\u00a0 I reiterate my own and the United Nations\u2019 commitment to support all efforts to bring the parties together to achieve a long-awaited, just and sustainable two-State solution, with Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the United Nations, I extend our heartfelt condolences to Dr.\u00a0Erekat\u2019s family, President [Mahmoud] Abbas, the people of Palestine and his many friends and supporters around the world.<\/p>\n

For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SG\/SM\/20408 10 NOVEMBER 2020 The following statement by ±¬ÁÏÍø Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres was issued today: I am deeply saddened by the death of Dr.\u00a0Saeb Erekat, Palestine Liberation Organization\u00a0(PLO) Secretary-General and Chief Negotiator for Palestinians in the Middle East Peace Process. I am grateful to have known Dr.\u00a0Erekat and to have called him my friend.\u00a0 He […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[1593],"document-category":[2621,3205,1338],"document-source":[5352,6169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[4317,1797],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-241923","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-palestine-state-of","document-category-message","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-subject-governance","document-subject-peace-process","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/241923","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\/241923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=241923"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=241923"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=241923"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=241923"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=241923"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=241923"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=241923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}