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Indonesia to host informal UNSC meeting on Palestine
At the meeting, Indonesia would highlight the legal and humanitarian aspects of Israel’s illegal settlements and calls on the implementation of UNSC Resolution 2334/2016, Retno said.
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Prelude: Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi (left) meets with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki at Indonesia’s permanent representative office in New York, the United States, on Wednesday. The consultation meeting was held ahead of informal discussions on Palestine at the United Nations Security Council.
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oreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi has invited her Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki to a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting in New York on the issue of illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine.
Indonesia, as the UNSC president for the month of May, will host on Thursday an Arria Formula meeting, which will focus on calls to hold Israel accountable for its encroachment on Palestinian territories.
The Arria Formula is an informal meeting format that allows UNSC member states to advance their views more freely, interactively and openly by inviting views from non-council members, academia and civil society groups — in contrast to regular meetings and consultations that allow only delegations and officials of the member states as well as UN officials to participate. Thursday’s meeting will be hosted with South Africa and Kuwait as cochairs.
Retno confirmed the attendance of al-Maliki at the event following a bilateral meeting with him at the office of the Indonesian Mission to the UN in New York on Wednesday.
