Annan increasingly concerned at ongoing Middle East violence
31 October -- Reacting to the latest spate of clashes in the Middle East, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the parties to honour the understandings reached earlier this month at the summit meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
"The Secretary-General is increasingly concerned at the continuing wave of violence in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza," a spokesman for Mr. Annan said in a statement released at UN Headquarters in New York. "He is dismayed by the ongoing loss of innocent lives."
Spokesman Fred Eckhard stressed that the Secretary-General believed that the only way to break the current cycle of violence and stabilize the situation was through a "full and immediate" implementation of the understandings reached at the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit, which Mr. Annan attended. "He calls on both sides to honour their commitments under this agreement and to exercise maximum restraint," Mr. Eckhard said.
According to the spokesman, the Secretary-General is maintaining close contact with the Summit participants, and his "good offices" remain at the disposal of the parties.
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