2023-10-16 13:49:50
The UN Security Council will meet on Monday at midnight (Swiss time) to decide on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the United Nations has confirmed. Diplomatic sources speak of two competing draft resolutions.
Russia circulated to Council member states on Friday a draft resolution to be put to a vote and which calls for an ‘immediate, lasting and fully respected humanitarian ceasefire’ and ‘unhindered’ humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip under siege, according to these sources.
Brazil, which chairs the Council this month, will also submit a text which condemns ‘the heinous terrorist attacks of Hamas’, we also learned from diplomatic sources.
But until Sunday, the draft resolution did not designate Hamas, while the United States in particular insisted that the Security Council clearly condemn the “heinous terrorist acts” of the Palestinian Islamist movement which launched an October 7 attack on an unprecedented scale once morest Israel.
To be adopted, a resolution requires the approval of at least 9 of the 15 members of the Council, without a veto from one of the five permanent members (United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China).
/ATS
1697468252
#Security #Council #meets #midnight #Monday
