Summary
The Secretary-General of the United Nations who, by his signed letter dated 7 May 2003, transmitted the Quartet’s Roadmap text to the President of the Security Council and asked that it be brought to the attention of the Council’s members (A Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Quartet, transmitted 7 May 2003), PDF p.1).
Details
- The letter states that the Roadmap text was prepared by the Quartet and was presented to the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority on 30 April 2003; Annan signs as “(Signed) Kofi A. Annan” (PDF p.1).
- Resolution 1397 (2002), adopted a year earlier, expresses support for the efforts of the Secretary-General and others to assist the parties to halt the violence and resume the peace process, without naming him (Resolution 1397 (2002) (12 March 2002), PDF p.1).
- In Pappe’s account, as recorded on the Jenin page, Secretary-General Kofi Annan decided to abandon the UN fact-finding mission into the Jenin camp after the Israeli government refused to cooperate, following Security Council Resolution 1405 of 20 April (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.281).
Related pages
A Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Quartet, transmitted 7 May 2003), Quartet, UN Security Council Resolution 1397, Jenin