Antonio Guterres Invokes Article 99 of UN Charter, Urges UNSC to Prevent Further Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Antonio Guterres Invokes Article 99 of UN Charter, Urges UNSC to Prevent Further Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
The UN and other aid groups warned of the grave humanitarian crisis, with virtually no safe places for civilians and medical supplies running critically low
The UN and other aid groups warned of the grave humanitarian crisis, with virtually no safe places for civilians and medical supplies running critically low.
For the first time in his tenure, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter which allows the SG to “bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.” Guterres sent a letter to Jose Javier de la Gasca Lopez Domínguez, President of the Security Council, invoking the article, to call the attention of the UNSC to the situation in Gaza.
While this is good, i would have hoped that the secretary general would have used much more strong language at this point.
He should have absolutely condemned the mass murder perpetrated by Israel and called for a total ceasefire, not a humanitarian ceasefire.
He could have at least done that much, since not many in power are willing to call what is happening a genocide and ethnic cleansing, even though that is what's happening.