The Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations said in response to the words of the US Secretary of State about how the Gaza Strip will be in the future: “The international community should think about saving the people living in Gaza now, not talking about the future of this region after the end of the current conflict.”
According to the report of the International group of Pakistan News Network, quoting from “Tass” news agency, Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations last night in a press conference, announced that the international community should save the present of the Gaza Strip, not to talk about the future of the region after the end of the current conflict between Israel and Palestine.
“Now is not the right time to discuss the future of Gaza, we have to keep it as it is, people are being killed now,” Nebenzia said. This Russian diplomat explained this issue in response to the words of Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, who said that the Palestinian government should lead the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Previously, it was reported that dozens of people were injured as a result of the use of white phosphorus by the Israeli military during the shelling of the Gaza Strip, and a large number of people suffering from respiratory problems were admitted to al-Shafa Hospital.
In late October, the head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Ibrahim Kirishi, said that Israel had used banned white phosphorus in attacks on the Gaza Strip. This fact has been confirmed by the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch.
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Russia expressed regret for the lack of progress in the adoption of the resolution related to Gaza
Dmitry Polyansky, the first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, also announced last night that No progress has yet been made in reaching an agreement on the text of the resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict proposed by the ten non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. “As far as I know, there is still no agreement on this,” he said in response to reporters’ questions.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said in an interview with Reuters last night: It is still too early to talk about the possibility of establishing a UN peacekeeping mission in the Gaza Strip. In response to the question, have there been any negotiations with Israel about this issue? said: “This issue has not been discussed.” Guterres admitted that the UN does not have the power or the means to stop the current genocide in the Gaza Strip, but the platform is trying to find a solution to the current crisis.
Guterres also confirmed that 92 UN staff have been killed since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict began to escalate. According to him, the number of civilian deaths in the besieged Gaza area shows that “something is wrong” in Israel’s military operations.
Earlier, on October 25, the UN Security Council rejected a Russian-proposed draft resolution on the situation in Gaza that included elements of Brazil’s draft that had not been adopted the previous week. Four countries voted in favor and nine countries abstained. According to Vasily Nebenzia, the permanent representative of Russia, the members of the Security Council did not have the courage to show strategic common sense.