October 3, 2024 10:00 AM
China urges UN Security Council to de-escalate Middle East crisis
China called on the United Nations Security Council to take "urgent actions" to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East as Israel launched fresh air strikes in Lebanon. China's permanent representative to the U.N., Fu Cong, said during a Security Council briefing on Wednesday, that it needed to make clear and unequivocal demands to stop the cycle of violence over the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. "The Security Council bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace...