Gaza: UN boss invokes Article 99 of UN Charter, says besieged enclave is ‘deteriorating into a catastrophe’
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in a dramatic move, invoked a UN article not used in decades to call...
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Full text: UN Secretary-General letter to the President of Security Council invoking Article 99 of United Nations Charter as war rages in Gaza
FROM: THE SECRETARY-GENERAL Dear Mr. President, 6 December 2023 I am writing under Article 99 of the United Nations Charter...
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Israeli warplanes resumed the pounding of Gaza, Palestinian civilians fled for shelter and rocket sirens blared in southern Israel on...
