Below is the official summary from the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine held yesterday.
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6590th meeting of the Security Council
The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question
The agenda was adopted without objection.
The President, with the consent of the Council, invited the representatives of Bangladesh, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Egypt, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Uganda and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, at their request, to participate in the consideration of the item without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure.
The President drew attention to a letter dated 21 July 2011 from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations (S/2011/444), in which he requested to be invited to participate in the meeting in accordance with the Council’s previous practice. In accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard, the President, with the consent of the Council, invited the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations to participate in the discussion.
In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council’s prior consultations, the President, with the consent of the Council, extended an invitation under rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process andPersonal Representative of the Secretary-General.
In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council’s prior consultations, the President, with the consent of the Council, extended invitations under rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure to H.E. Mr. Abdou Diallo, Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and to H.E. Mr. Pedro Serrano, Acting Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations.
The Council began its consideration of the item and heard a briefing by Mr. Robert Serry.
The Council heard a statement by the Permanent Observer of Palestine. The Council heard a statement by the representative of Israel.
Statements were made by the representatives of the United States, Nigeria, Lebanon, China, South Africa, France, Gabon, Portugal, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, India and Colombia, and by the President, H.E. Mr. Werner Hoyer, speaking in his capacity as the Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.
The Council heard statements by the representatives of Egypt (on behalf of the Non- Aligned Movement), Cuba and Indonesia.
The Council heard a statement by H.E. Mr. Abdou Diallo, Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
The Council heard a statement by H.E. Mr. Pedro Serrano, Acting Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations (on behalf of the European Union; the candidate countries Croatia and Montenegro; the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia; as well as Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, which aligned themselves with this statement).
The meeting was suspended.
Upon resumption, the President, with the consent of the Council, invited the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran, at his request, to participate in the consideration of the item without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure.
The Council heard statements by the representatives of Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Uganda, Iceland, Kuwait, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Bangladesh, Morocco, Kazakhstan (on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation), the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran.