The UN Security Council will meet urgently this Sunday after Iran launched more than 200 drones and missiles against Israel In response to an attack on its consulate in Damascus, the organization's presidency announced.
“We plan to organize the meeting tomorrow at 4:00 p.m., a spokesperson for the Maltese diplomatic mission, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council in April, told the press on Saturday.
Minutes earlier, Israel had requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council “to unequivocally condemn Iran” for its attacks on Israeli territory and the territories it occupies in Palestine and Syria.
Ambassador Gilad Erdan said on his X account that this session should also serve to “designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (that country's military elite) as a terrorist organization.
“It is time for the Security Council to take concrete measures against the Iranian threat,” he added, expressing his “outrage” at an attack of “unprecedented” magnitude that represents “a serious and dangerous escalation.”
In a statement explaining his request to convene the Council, Ambassador Erdan recalls that “the severity and volume of these attacks are unprecedented,” and affirms that “Iran poses a direct threat to international peace, which openly violates the UN charter and Security Council resolutions.
The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, said this Saturday that he “strongly condemns” Iran's attack against Israel, which represents “a serious escalation”, and called for “an immediate cessation of hostilities”, in a statement issued this afternoon.
“I am deeply alarmed by the very real risk of a devastating regional escalation,” he said, calling on “all parties to exercise maximum self-restraint” to avoid any action that could translate into major clashes and “on multiple fronts in the East.” Half”.
A few minutes earlier, the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, very belligerent against Guterres since the war began, wrote on his X account a message addressed to the secretary general: “Iran has violated the UN charter (… “Where are your words, where are your condemnation? Wake up!!!”.
On Saturday night, Iran launched more than 200 drones and missiles at Israel. This Saturday's attack was justified by Iran as retaliation for the attack suffered on April 1 against its consulate in Damascus and attributed to Israel.
The April 1 bombing destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus and killed two high-ranking guards.
AFP and EFE
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