Daily Press Briefing, Spokesman for the Secretary-General:
"...Also I wanted to come back to yesterday's statement by the Secretary General on the Middle East peace process. I think it has provoked a lot of reaction, some of it negative. Just to underscore that the Secretary General stands by every word that he used in the Security Council...The Secretary General has repeatedly said that nothing, absolutely nothing justifies terrorism....At the same time, if we want to see an end to this violence security measures will not be enough, we must address the root causes, the underlying frustrations...[Y]oung Palestinians are losing hope."