Ban Ki-moon to visit Middle East to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to re-engage - Polidicks

[release] [quote] [img]http://www.un.org/News/dh/photos/large/2012/January/502437-bankimoonpresser.jpg[/img] 25 January 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that he will travel to the Middle East next week to encourage the Israelis and the Palestinians to re-engage to move the peace process forward. “My visit comes at an important moment,” Mr. Ban told a news conference at UN Headquarters, as he announced his travels to Jordan, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators began preparatory talks at the beginning of January in Amman under the facilitation of King Abdullah of Jordan and the country’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh. “I will be there to encourage both sides to re-engage in earnest and create a positive atmosphere for moving forward,” Mr. Ban stated. Direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians stalled in September 2010 after Israel refused to extend its freeze on settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory. That decision prompted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to withdraw from direct talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which had only resumed a few weeks earlier after a two-year hiatus. The Secretary-General also noted that today marks the one-year anniversary of the uprising in Egypt that led to the removal of the regime of Hosni Mubarak. “On this important day, I want to congratulate the people of Egypt on their peaceful transition to democracy and their determination to push for continuing change,” he said. Referring to yesterday’s announcement of a partial lifting of the state of emergency in the country, Mr. Ban encouraged the transitional authorities to pursue the peaceful and early handover of power to civilian government, to uphold human rights, to release political detainees and accelerate the pace of reform. [/quote] [/release] [URL="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41039&Cr=palestin&Cr1="]Source[/URL] Too bad nothing will come out of this, nothing good ever comes out of a visit by the Secretary General other then his visit being condemned by some random country.

Sensationalist headline points congrats

Is he the SecGen of the USA? I haven't been keeping up. If so, it's hypocritical as fuck, and I don't need to say why.

I hope I live to see a peaceful end to this conflict. [editline]27th January 2012[/editline] Yeah, no, I won't...

[QUOTE=archangel125;34415718]Is he the SecGen of the USA? I haven't been keeping up. If so, it's hypocritical as fuck, and I don't need to say why.[/QUOTE] What? There is no Secretary General of the US. He works for the UN.

Title could really have had the world "talks" at the end of it.

I doubt he'll have much impact to be completely honest. It's not in Israel's interest.

[QUOTE=archangel125;34415718]Is he the SecGen of the USA? I haven't been keeping up. If so, it's hypocritical as fuck, and I don't need to say why.[/QUOTE] Are you naturally dumb?

[QUOTE=OzJackal;34412153]Read title of the thread - thought it meant he was trying to persuade them to fight harder. Oops.[/QUOTE] I was about to come here and post a shitty comment regarding the same thing til I read it :v:

I think the best solution would be to merge Israel and Palestine together to create a new nation for them both. But of course, neither of the sides want to do that.

[QUOTE=UnknownDude;34421501]I think the best solution would be to merge Israel and Palestine together to create a new nation for them both. But of course, neither of the sides want to do that.[/QUOTE] Even if you could talk the governments into doing that there'd probably be a lot of people who'd be pissed. Plus I think the soldiers of both sides may have a problem with doing fucked up shit to the other side in the name of their country, only for that country to turn around and say the exact opposite. I think I speak for many people when I say that the general situation with Israel and Palestine is a really, really big mess.