The foreign ministers of Egypt, Badr Abdelatyand Lebanon, Abdullah Bou Habib, urged this Monday the “active countries” and the United Nations to “assume its role” to prevent the clashes between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah from becoming a “large-scale regional conflict.”
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In a joint statement, both ministers, meeting in New York, where they are attending the General Assembly of the UNThey stressed that “active States must play their role (…) to prevent the clashes from spreading and becoming a large-scale regional conflict.”
They also stressed the importance of the international community and the UN “issuing a binding resolution of the United Nations Security Council “for Israel to immediately stop its aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese territories.”
Issue a binding UN Security Council resolution calling on Israel to immediately stop its aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese territories
The statement, released by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of both countries, occurs at a time of great tension in Lebanon due to the campaign of intense bombings that Israel launched on Monday in several areas in the south of the country, causing more than 500 deaths.
Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in the affected regions, while authorities have opened new schools to house displaced people to cope with the wave of mass flight from southern and eastern Lebanon.
“It is necessary for Israel to comply with its obligations under international law (…) in such a way that civilians are protected from the aggressions committed” by the Jewish State, they said. the heads of diplomacy of Egypt and Lebanon, according to the note.
They also insisted that the “only solution” of the crisis in the Middle East is “through the cessation of hostilities and aggression on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and resorting to the peaceful solutions to stop the escalation“.
In another statement, Egypt condemned “the extensive military operations in Lebanon, which left dozens of victims” and the Egyptian foreign minister stressed the need to “move away from military solutions that will only lead to bloodshed and endanger the lives of civilians.”
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abulgheit, for his part, said in a statement that “this dangerous escalation represents a flagrant attack on Lebanese sovereignty and threatens to blow up the regional situation in a way whose consequences will be painful for all.”
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) expressed a similar position, urging the parties in conflict to exercise “maximum restraint” in separate statements from their foreign ministries, and stressing “the importance of preserving Lebanon’s sovereignty.”
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