Geneva: Pakistan has urged Friday at the emergency session of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to intervene and urgently facilitate a peaceful resolution to intensify the Iran-Israel conflict.
“This is a crucial moment,” said Ambikhar Ahmad, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, in the debate, urging the Council to fulfill its responsibility by promoting dialogue and diplomacy online with the UN letter to avoid more regional instability.
The emergency session was convened by Guyana, which has the presidency of the Council for June, and with the support of Pakistan, among others, in the middle of the current war between Iran and Israel.
Since Friday, Israel has launched large -scale attacks in Iran, directing military bases, nuclear sites and residential areas throughout the country.
The attacks have killed at least 224 people in the Islamic Republic, including the main military commanders, nuclear and civil scientists. Iran took reprisals with drone and missile barriers that have killed at least 25 people in Israel, according to the authorities.
Iran does not recognize Israel and for a long time he accused him of carrying out sabotage operations against his nuclear facilities, as well as killing his scientists.
The As As As ambassador, in today’s debate, said that continuous Israeli Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities and other objectives have “aggravated” regional tensions and threatened peace and security.
“Dialogue and diplomacy in full adhesion to the principles of international law and the UN Letter, remain the only viable path to resolve the crisis,” he said, added: “Military media and coercion cannot make a lasting agreement.”
Unfortunately, he said, Israeli illegal attacks against Iran arrived at a time of intense diplomatic commitment in Iran’s nuclear problem, stressing that these illegal actions should not be able to sink that dialogue.
“The parties must quickly return to the path of negotiations, which is the only viable means to reach a sustainable agreement with respect to the Iranian nuclear program,” said Pakistani envoy, pointing out the will of the United States to keep the door open the negotiations.
“We hope that diplomatic efforts and commitments bear fruit.”
At first, the Pakistani envoy condemned the Israeli attacks that began on June 13 and said that these strikes violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran. “Pakistan strongly condemns Israel’s unjustified and illegitimate aggression. We sympathize with the people of Iran,” he said.
“We offer our sincere condolences and sympathies to the fraternal people of Iran about the loss of lives as a result of these unprovoked attacks,” he said, adding that the subsequent humanitarian and civil toll is “deplorable.”
“The last crisis has aggravated existing tensions in the region that arises from the continuous ruthless assault from Israel to Gaza, which has resulted in an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe for the Palestinian innocent, as well as their recurring violations of international law in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen,” he added.
Attacks against nuclear facilities for peaceful purposes contravene international law, the UN Charter, the OIEA Statute (International Atomic Energy Agency) and the relevant resolutions of the General Conference of the IEA on the subject, he said.
During the debate, Ambassador Iphtikhar asked the Council to reject categorically and condemn Israel’s attacks to Iran since June 13; It plays its due role to end hostilities and promote decalciation to achieve a high integral fire before the situation is controlled and threatens the peace and stability of the entire region; Clearly denounces the orientation of the safe nuclear facilities of Oieea; and ask for dialogue and diplomacy to promote a peaceful settlement.
“Diplomacy must have an opportunity,” concluded the Pakistani envoy.
‘Give peace a chance’
Opening the debate, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, warned that the expansion of Iran-Israel’s conflict could “light a fire that nobody can control” and asked both sides to both sides and the possible games that “give peace a chance.”
The representatives of Israel and Iran then exchanged accusations of anger at the same meeting of the UN Security Council, with Israel promising not to stop their attacks.
Meanwhile, the head of the UN Nuclear Surveillance Agency warned that attacks against nuclear facilities could lead to “radioactive releases with great consequences within and beyond the limits” of the attacked state and requested the highest restriction.
Guterres said there were “moments when the instructions taken will form not only the destiny of nations, but potentially our collective future.”
“This is a moment,” he said, adding that the conflict should not be able to expand.
“For the parties in the conflict, the possible parts of the conflict and the Security Council as representative of the international community, I have a simple and clear message: give peace a chance,” Guterres said.
The Session of the Security Council took place when the European foreigners of foreigners met their Iranian counterpart on Friday, hoping to prove Tehran’s preparation to negotiate a new nuclear agreement even though the low perspective for Israel to cease soon.
Israel has repeatedly bombarded nuclear objectives in Iran, who sees as components of a weapons program, and Iran has triggered missiles and drones to Israel when an air war of one week intensified without signs of an exit strategy on both sides.
The White House said Thursday that US President Donald Trump would make a decision in the next two weeks if to participate on Israel’s side.
Iran says that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes. He said Friday that he would not discuss the future of the program while he is attacked by Israel, who is supposed to have nuclear weapons. Israel does not confirm or denies it.
Iran’s UN ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, said Iran would continue to defend himself from Israeli attacks, while his Israeli counterpart Danny Danon promised: “We will not stop. Not until Iran’s nuclear threat is dismantled, not until his war machine is disarmed, not until our people and their people are safe.”
The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Camille Shea, said that the United States “continues with Israel and supports his actions against Iran’s nuclear ambitions.”
“We can no longer ignore that Iran has everything you need to achieve a nuclear weapon,” he said.
China and Russia demanded an immediate decallation.
The UN ambassador of Russia, Vasily Nebenzy, said that Israel’s shares risked to take third countries to the conflict and the internationalization of the conflict should be avoided.
He said that addressing what he called the peaceful civil nuclear facilities of Iran was “responsible for immersing us on one side to an invisible nuclear catastrophe.”
– With additional contributions from Reuters
