Geneva: Pakistan urged the United Nations (USC) emergency session on Friday to intervene urgently and facilitate peaceful resolution in the intensification of the Iran-Israeli conflict.
“This is a pivotal moment,” said Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, urging the Council to assume its responsibility by promoting dialogue and diplomacy in accordance with the UN Charter to prevent new regional instability.
The emergency session was summoned by Guyana – which holds the presidency of the Council for June – and supported by Pakistan among others in the middle of the in progress war between Iran and Israel.
Since Friday, Israel has launched large -scale strikes on Iran, targeting military bases, nuclear sites and residential areas across the country.
The attacks killed at least 224 people in the Islamic Republic, including the best military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians. Iran retaliated with drone and missile dams that killed at least 25 people in Israel, the authorities said.
Iran does not recognize Israel and has long accused it of having carried out hoof operations against its nuclear installations, as well as to assassinate its scientists.
Ambassador Asim, in today’s debate, said that the fatal Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear installations and other targets have “aggravated” regional tensions and threatened peace and security.
“Dialogue and diplomacy in full grip to the principles of international law and the United Nations Charter remains the only viable path to resolve the crisis,” he said, adding: “Military means and coercion cannot cause lasting rules.”
Unfortunately, he said, Israeli illegal strikes against Iran came at a time of intense diplomatic commitment to Iran’s nuclear issue, stressing that these illegal actions should not be authorized to sabotage this dialogue.
“The parties must quickly return to the path of negotiations, which is the only viable way to achieve a lasting agreement concerning the Iranian nuclear program,” said the Pakistani envoy, noting the will of the United States to keep the door to open negotiations.
“We hope that diplomatic efforts and commitments will bear fruit.”
At the beginning, the Pakistani envoy sentenced Israeli strikes which began on June 13 and declared that these strikes had violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran. “Pakistan firmly condemns the unjustified and illegitimate assault by Israel. We are united with the Iranian people,” he said.
“We offer our sincere condolences and our sympathies to the fraternal people of Iran on the loss of life because of these uninsured attacks,” he said, adding that the ensuing humanitarian and civil toll is “deplorable”.
“The last crisis has aggravated the existing tensions in the region resulting from the continuously continuous Israel assault against Gaza, which has led to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster for innocent Palestinians, as well as its recurring violations of international law in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen,” he added.
Attacks on nuclear installations for peaceful purposes contravenes international law, the UN Charter, the status of the AIA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and the relevant resolutions of the IAEA General Conference on the issue, he said.
During the debate, the Iftikhar ambassador called on the Council to reject and categorically condemn the attacks of Israel against Iran since June 13; Playing your role due to end hostilities and promoting de-escalation to obtain a complete ceasefire before the situation became uncontrollable and threatens the peace and stability of the whole region; clearly denounce the targeting of the nuclear installations of the IAEA-SAFUDUDED; And call dialogue and diplomacy to promote peaceful regulations.
“Diplomacy must have a chance,” concluded the Pakistani envoy.
‘Give peace a chance’
By opening the debate, the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres warned that the expansion of the Iran-Israeli conflict could “light a fire that no one can control” and called on both sides and the potential parts to the conflict to “give peace a chance”.
Representatives of Israel and Iran then exchanged angry charges at the same meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Israel judging not to stop their attacks.
The head of the United Nations nuclear surveillance agency, on the other hand, warned that attacks on nuclear installations could lead to “radioactive versions with large consequences inside and beyond the borders” of the attacked state and called for maximum restraint.
Guterres said that there were “moments when the instructions taken will shape not only the fate of nations, but potentially our collective future”.
“It is such a moment,” he said, adding that the conflict should not be authorized to develop.
“For the parties to the conflict, the potential parties to the conflict and the Security Council as a representative of the international community, I have a simple and clear message: gives peace a chance,” said Guterres.
The session of the Security Council took place while European Ministers of Foreign Affairs met their Iranian counterpart on Friday in the hope of testing Tehran’s desire to negotiate a new nuclear agreement although there are few prospects of Israel which ceases its attacks soon.
Israel has repeatedly bombed nuclear targets in Iran, which it considers components of a program of arms, and Iran has fired missiles and drones on Israel while a week -long aerial war was collapsed without yet a sign of an exit strategy on each side.
The White House said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump would make a decision in the next two weeks to get involved on the sides of Israel.
Iran says that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes. He said on Friday that he would not discuss the future of the program when he was attacked by Israel, which is largely supposed to have nuclear weapons. Israel does not confirm or deny it.
Iran’s ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said that Iran would continue to defend himself against Israeli attacks, while his Israeli counterpart Danny Danon has sworn: “We will not stop. Not before Iran’s nuclear threat is dismantled, not until his war machine is disarmed, not before our people and Iran is not safe. “
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Camille Shea said that the United States “continues to stand with Israel and supports his actions against Iran’s nuclear ambitions”.
“We can no longer ignore that Iran has everything he needs to reach a nuclear weapon,” she said.
China and Russia have required immediate de -escalation.
The ambassador of United Nations Russia, Vasily Nebenzya, said that the actions of Israel were likely to draw third countries in the conflict and the internationalization of the conflict was to be avoided.
He said that the targeting of what he called the peaceful civilian nuclear installations of Iran was “required to immerse us in an invisible nuclear disaster”.
– with an additional reuters input
