December 7, 2023 11:34 AM
UN chief invokes Article 99 to urge Security Council avert humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza
In a rare move, Guterres wrote to the president of the Security Council to demand action, invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter for the first time since he became UN Secretary-General in 2017, expressing grave concerns over the scale of the loss of human lives in Gaza and Israel in a short period of...


