UN Under-Secretary-General for political affairs Rosemary DiCarlo told ambassadors at a UN Security Council meeting yesterday that the repercussions of the attacks were already reverberating.
“I reaffirm the Secretary-General’s condemnation of any military escalation in the Middle East,” she said, urging both Israel and Iran to exercise maximum restraint and “avoid at all costs a descent into deeper and wider regional conflict”.
DiCarlo urged parties to stay the diplomatic course.
“A peaceful resolution through negotiations remains the best means to ensure the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme,” she said. “We must at all costs avoid a growing conflagration which would have enormous global consequences.”
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