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Statement by UN Special Coordinator Mladenov on President Abbas' speech at the opening of the Palestinian National Council

“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chose to use his speech at the opening of the Palestinian National Council to repeat some of the most contemptuous anti-Semitic slurs, including the suggestion that the social behavior of Jews was the cause for the Holocaust.

02 May 2018

Statement by Special Coordinator Mladenov on the convening of the Palestinian National Council

“I welcome the convening of the Palestinian National Council, which meets today in Ramallah for the first time in two decades.

30 Apr 2018

Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process Addresses Security Council

BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, INCLUDING THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION

Mr. President,

Members of the Security Council,

26 Apr 2018

Statement by UN Special Coordinator Mladenov on the situation in Gaza

Statement by United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process,Nickolay Mladenov, on the situation in GazaJerusalem, 5 April 2018

05 Apr 2018

Secretary-General’s statement on the situation in Gaza

05 Apr 2018

At Security Council, UN Middle East peace envoy reports on Israel’s troubling settlement expansion

Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a United Nations envoy warned Monday that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the pros

27 Mar 2018

BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST – REPORT ON UNSCR 2334 (2016)

Mr. President,

Members of the Security Council,

26 Mar 2018

UN Report: The crisis in Gaza requires a changed political reality and renewed commitment by the parties to avoid a total systems collapse

The absence of a political process aimed at ending the conflict on the basis of two-state solution continues to be the single largest impediment to Palestinian development, according to a new report by the office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle

16 Mar 2018

Statement by UN Special Coordinator Mladenov on the targeting of Palestinian PM Hamdallah's convoy in Gaza

“I condemn the attack on the convoy of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Gaza earlier today and wish those injured a speedy recovery. This grave incident must be promptly investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice.

13 Mar 2018

Security Council Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East, UN Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov

Mr. President,

Your Excellency President Mahmoud ABBAS, President of the State of Palestine;

Ladies and Gentlemen,

20 Feb 2018

Statement by UN Special Coordinator Mladenov following his joint meeting yesterday with PM Hamdallah and Head of COGAT General Mordechai

Following his joint meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Major General Yoav (Poli) Mordechai on 14 February, UN Special Coordinator Mladenov stated:

15 Feb 2018

Secretary-General António Guterres (second left) addresses the 2018 opening session of the General Assembly's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Amid ‘difficult reality’ in Middle East, two-state solution more important than ever – UN chief

International consensus on a two-State solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be eroding “at a time when it is more important than ever,” Secretary-General António Guterres said on

05 Feb 2018

Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

Time to stop ‘managing’ Israeli-Palestinian conflict, show leadership to resolve it – Security Council told

The United Nations, the Security Council and the wider international community all have fallen into a pattern of “managing, rather than resolving” the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the UN envoy on the Middle East peace process warned T

25 Jan 2018