UNITED NATIONS Myles Jack Jersey , Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is heading to Kuwait, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in hopes of restarting the Mideast peace process, the chief UN spokesman announced on Thursday.
"The Secretary-General will leave New York on Friday... for a trip that will take him to Kuwait, Israel and the state of Palestine," said the spokesman, Stephane Dujarric.
Guterres plans to meet with Kuwaiti leaders on Sunday, "to discuss the situation in the region" and express gratitude to Kuwait for its "tremendous generosity for humanitarian causes," and then fly to Israel, Dujarric said.
There, "he will meet with the Israeli and Palestinian leadership to discuss the prospects of reviving the peace process," said the spokesman, adding that Guterres "will also engage with civil society and university leaders and visit an UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) facility."
The Secretary-General is to return to UN Headquarters in New York late on Wednesday, Aug. 30, Dujarric said.
"On the visit to Israel and Palestine, I think the issue is obviously an important issue on the UN's agenda," he said. "It's important for the Secretary-General to go to visit both places early in his tenure."
Guterres took office on Jan. 1.
The Secretary-General "will be reiterating the UN's commitment to providing Israelis and Palestinians with all possible support to reach a comprehensive two-state solution as the only option for realizing the national aspirations of both peoples," Dujarric said.
Asked if Guterres was going to visit the Gaza Strip, the spokesman said, "at this point all I can share with you is what I have shared with you."
However, when Dujarric was asked there was no connection between the Guterres visit to the region and that of Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's senior adviser, and son-in-law, who is leading a delegation of administration officials to the Middle East, calling it merely a "coincidence."
Dujarric also was pressed on the Kuwait visit and whether Guterres would discuss the regional crisis of Qatar.
"Obviously Kuwait plays a very important role in the region, notably, currently, on its mediation efforts towards resolving the (Qatar) crisis in the Gulf, also having an important role in Iraq and other areas in the region and, as I said, to thank the Kuwaitis for their support for UN's humanitarian work," he said.
Also, Guterres was going to Kuwait because he had visited other Gulf states but for "various logistic reasons Kuwait is not a place he already visited," Dujarric said.
In June, Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, imposed economic blockade on Qatar after cutting off diplomatic ties with it. They have charged Qatar with helping the "terrorist organizations," which Qatar has denied.
People experience technology of robot in World Robot Conference
Video: US "Section 301" probe violates international trading practices
Samples collected from Caroline Seamount in western Pacific Ocean
Water volume of Hukou Waterfall surged due to heavy rainfall
At least 2 died, 8 injured in knife attack in Turku, Finland
13 killed, over 100 others injured in Barcelona attack: official
Over 400 killed in mudslides in Sierra Leone
Qiandaohu Lake in China's Zhejiang under stricter protection
Crushers used to effectively process silica sand
Silica sand is the most abundant mineral found in the crust of the earth. It forms an important constituent of practically all rock-forming minerals. It is found in a variety of forms, as quartz crystals, massive forming hills, quartz sand (silica sand), sandstone, quartzite, tripoli, diatomite, flint, opal, chalcedonic forms like agate, onyx etc., and in with numerous other forms depending upon colour such as purple quartz (amethyst), smoky quartz, yellow quartz or false topaz (citrine), rose quartz and milky quartz. Only pure quartz crystal or rock crystal, untwinned, clear, free from any inclusion, has an important property:
Silica is a specialist semiconductor distribution business offering an extensive technology and product portfolio from a highly focused linecard. Serving most Western and Eastern European countries, Silica markets through pan-European agreements from the leading suppliers of semiconductors.
Silica offers one of the most comprehensive product portfolios available from any distributor. With local teams of application engineers and technology specialists, it is dedicated to supporting its OEM customers technically and to providing the design-in expertise needed for customers to compete successfully.
VSI crusher is designed by reputed German expert of Shibang and every index of VSI crusher is in world's leading standard. SBM VSI crusher incorporates three crushing types and it can be operated 720 hours continuously. Nowadays, VSI crusher has replace hammer crusher roller crusher, roller ball mill, etc. and become the mainstream equipmentin sand manking business.
VSI crushersare widely applied in expressway and railway building, hydropower station construction, highway, bridge and tunnel building, concrete batching plant, etc for crushing and gravel shaping. They are highly recommended when it comes to the shaping of gravels used in concrete aggregates, whose concrete strength is above C 60 or which required to be freeze proof and leak proof. In the fine crushing section, VSI is the substitute of