UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will participate in the Palestinian settlement conference next June, stressing his readiness to support the conference as necessary to ensure its success.

On September 18, the General Assembly decided to hold a “high-level international conference for a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian question and implementation of the two-state solution” next June.

In this context, Dujarric said that the Secretary-General will participate in the opening part of the conference, and that he stressed that "the region needs urgent and irreversible action to enable the parties to re-engage in the long-awaited political process towards ending the occupation and resolving the conflict."

He added that the Secretary-General stressed that this "must happen in line with international law, relevant United Nations resolutions and bilateral agreements in pursuit of the vision of two States - Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous, viable and sovereign Palestinian State - living side by side."