🗓 On September 25, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (#UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini on the sidelines of the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The Officials discussed the current extreme surge of tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict zone with a focus on humanitarian response priorities in the Gaza Strip. It was noted that the UNRWA played a key role in providing comprehensive relief and support to Palestinians both in the occupied Palestinian territory and neighbouring Arab countries. They stressed the importance for the UNRWA to maintain its historical mandate to secure the refugees and their descendants’ right of return.
They reaffirmed the imperative need for an immediate and universal ceasefire, primarily in Gaza, as a necessary condition for establishing a sustainable and safe humanitarian access to victims and persons in need, releasing hostages and forcibly detained persons, and re-launching the peace process on the generally recognised international legal basis, including the two-state solution.
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The Officials discussed the current extreme surge of tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict zone with a focus on humanitarian response priorities in the Gaza Strip. It was noted that the UNRWA played a key role in providing comprehensive relief and support to Palestinians both in the occupied Palestinian territory and neighbouring Arab countries. They stressed the importance for the UNRWA to maintain its historical mandate to secure the refugees and their descendants’ right of return.
They reaffirmed the imperative need for an immediate and universal ceasefire, primarily in Gaza, as a necessary condition for establishing a sustainable and safe humanitarian access to victims and persons in need, releasing hostages and forcibly detained persons, and re-launching the peace process on the generally recognised international legal basis, including the two-state solution.
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