The United Nations marked on Wednesday the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people with urgent calls for resuming the suspended peace process between Israel and Palestine.

"Let us commit ourselves to breathing new life into the peace process so that the goals of statehood for Palestinians, and security for the State of Israel, can be realized before this tragedy takes too many more lives," UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message for the day.

He pointed that a peaceful settlement of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict remains heartrendingly elusive, stressing that successive opportunities to move the peace process forward have not borne fruit.

"And the situation on the ground is deeply troubling," the UN chief added, calling on international donors to take immediate action to alleviate the acute suffering in the West Bank and Gaza.

However, Annan stressed that the two parties themselves bore "the primary responsibility for finding their way out of their predicament, by engaging in a viable political process that can lead to the peace their peoples both yearn for."

Meanwhile, there are special meetings of the UN General Assembly and related committees, and film shows and exhibitions at the UN Headquarters in New York.

The Assembly was discussing the latest UN reports on the situation and related resolutions, while the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People was holding a special session.

The committee, together with the Palestinian Permanent Observer Mission, has organized the screening of the film "The color of olives" and the opening of an exhibit entitled "Contextualization: A Palestinian narrative."

Source: Xinhua