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GA/PAL/934
20/11/2003
Press Release
GA/PAL/934


BUREAU OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE WELCOMES SECURITY COUNCIL’S RESOLUTION


ENDORSING ‘ROAD MAP’ TO SOLUTION OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT


On 19 November 2003, the Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement concerning the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1515 (2003):

SC/7926
19/11/2003
Press Release
SC/7926


Security Council

4864th Meeting (PM)


SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES INTENTION TO ADDRESS MINE ACTION IN PEACEKEEPING


MANDATES, CITING LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF LANDMINES ON PEACE, SECURITY


Citing the long-term consequences of landmines and unexploded ordnance on peace and security, the Security Council this afternoon expressed its intention to address mine action in the mandates of peacekeeping operations when appropriate.

SC/7923
19/11/2003
Press Release
SC/7923


Security Council

4861st Meeting* (AM)


PERIOD OF INERTIA, EXCUSES, CONDITIONALITY IN MIDDLE EAST PEACEMAKING


MUST END, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL


The period of inertia, excuses and conditionality in Middle East peacemaking must end, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Kieran Prendergast, said this morning, as he briefed the Security Council.