UN Secretary-General confirms his inability to hold “Quartet” on Palestine

SANAA, June 26 (YPA) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced that his organization is currently unable to provide the conditions for a meeting of the “International Quartet” committee on Palestine.
This came in a press conference held on Thursday, via a television circle with journalists at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
“I work vigorously and also work as Special Coordinator (for the Middle East Peace Process) Nikolai Miladinov, to create the conditions for a meeting of the Quartet (the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia) without preconditions,” Guterres said.
He added, “Currently, we are unable to create the appropriate conditions for holding such a meeting, we believe that dialogue is the only way to move forward in this regard.”
The Secretary-General renewed his call to Israel to abandon its plans to annex areas of the occupied West Bank for its sovereignty in early July.
In response to reporters’ questions about his warnings at a Security Council session, on Wednesday, of the dangers of “annexation” to the peace process, Guterres said that he still believed in everything he had said before the council in this regard.
In a session of the UN Security Council held on Wednesday, Guterres warned that “Israel risks, through plans to annex Palestinian lands, the peace process in the Middle East.”
“The annexation constitutes a serious violation of international law, seriously harms the possibility of a two-state solution and undermines the possibility of resuming negotiations,” he added.
During the same session, Guterres called on the Israeli government to abandon the annexation plans.
The region is witnessing a state of anticipation for Israel to announce its intention to annex the Jordan Valley area, the northern Dead Sea (on the border with Jordan) and parts of the occupied West Bank for its sovereignty in early July, amid warnings of the danger of this step.
Palestinian estimates indicate that the annexation will reach more than 30 percent of the occupied West Bank.