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La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, p. 22
New York., The United Nations assistant secretary general for the Middle East, Mohamed Khaled Khiari, warned yesterday during an emergency session of the Security Council that the attacks between Israel and Iran risk plunging the region into uncharted waters.
In the meeting held at the request of Algeria, China and Russia, the United States denied its participation in Tel Aviv’s military action against Tehran over the weekend, said the US ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Specifically, Israel carried out precision airstrikes against multiple military targets throughout Iran and outside populated areas.he explained.
Hours earlier, the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia, Abbas Araqchi and Faisal bin Farhan, held a telephone conversation in which they warned of the possible repercussions of a regional escalation and reiterated the need to adopt containment measures.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its condemnation and denunciation in relation to the Israeli attacks, said the ministry, which also reiterated its firm position rejecting the escalation of the conflict.
For his part, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Hosein Salami, warned Tel Aviv that it will face bitter and unimaginable consequences after his attacks over the weekend.
The international community, including the most influential states, must play a constructive role to alleviate the conflict in the Middle East, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said yesterday.
The international community must perform a constructive role and create the necessary conditions to mitigate tensions in the regionLin expressed to the press, commenting on the Israeli offensive on Tehran, and emphasized that the current situation is extremely tense, and the nations involved must avoid further escalation of the conflict.
Iraq denounced to the United Nations with an official note of protest to the Secretary General (Antonio Guterres) and the UN Security Councilrape flagrant violation committed by the Zionist entity regarding the airspace and sovereignty of Iraq, as well as the use of Iraqi airspace to carry out an attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran on October 26indicated a statement.
The document stressed that Baghdad prohibits using both its airspace and its territory to attack other states, especially neighboring ones, with whom it has relations of friendship and mutual interest.
The high representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, reiterated yesterday his call to an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon, considering unacceptable the attacks of the Israeli army against the UN peacekeeping force in that country, during the opening of the meeting of the 43 members of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) in Barcelona.
The UfM, which joined this petition, stated that the achievement of the cessation of hostilities must be immediate and permanentin addition to the absolute priority in Gaza and Lebanonthey stressed in a joint statement after the annual regional forum.
