Secret UN report condemns US policy in Middle East
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
London, June 13, IRNA
UK Report-US-Mideast
The UN's Middle East envoy has issued a damning confidential report in which he warned that American pressure "pummelled into submission" the United Nations role as impartial negotiator, it was revealed Wednesday.
Alvaro de Soto also condemns Israeli regime for setting unachievable preconditions for talks, saying that Western-led peace negotiations had become largely irrelevant, according to the Guardian newspaper, which said it had seen his 53-page End of Mission report.
The report, meant only for senior UN officials, was said to present a devastating account of failed diplomacy, while condemning the sweeping boycott of the Palestinian government.
The international boycott of the Palestinians, introduced after Hamas won elections last year, was "at best extremely short-sighted" and had "devastating consequences" for the Palestinian people, the envoy said just before he stepped down from his role last month.
Israel, he said, had adopted an "essentially rejectionist" stance towards the Palestinians, while the Quartet of Middle East negotiators, made up of the US, the EU, Russia and the UN, had become a "side-show."
De Soto said the boycott, which he opposed, "effectively transformed the Quartet from a negotiation-promoting foursome guided by a common document [the road map for peace] into a body that was all - but imposing sanctions on a freely elected government of a people under occupation as well as setting unattainable preconditions for dialogue."
When questioned about the report in New York, the Guardian said that the Peruvian diplomat insisted it was "a confidential document and not intended for publication."
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