UN Chief Urges Halt to Gulf Attacks, Immediate Return to Diplomacy
The UN chief warned that renewed fighting has stranded about 6,000 seafarers and raised energy prices as shipping through the strait slowed.
- On Sunday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate end to military escalations in the Gulf, urging all parties to "exercise maximum restraint" and take immediate steps to de-escalate.
- Tensions surged after the United States struck around 140 targets on Saturday in response to Iranian military attacks on international vessels in the waterway.
- Renewed hostilities brought shipping to a near-standstill on Thursday, leaving around 6,000 seafarers stranded aboard hundreds of vessels in the Strait of Hormuz while energy markets remained unsettled.
- Guterres warned that a return to full-scale hostilities would have "catastrophic consequences" for the global economy, while stressing that "full freedom of navigation" must be restored in the Strait of Hormuz.
- UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric urged Tehran and Washington to urgently resume negotiations and resolve outstanding issues through the June Memorandum of Understanding intended to stabilize relations.
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According to media reports, the U.S. military has once again attacked rocket positions, air defense facilities and boats of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran. The aim is to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormus. The UN is alarmed.
The UN Secretary General called for a halt to the attacks and asked Washington and Tehran urgently to resume negotiations through diplomatic channels.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, appealed this Sunday to the United States and Iran to exercise maximum restraint and resume negotiations urgently in the face of the military escalation in the Gulf. The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the strong escalation and resumption of military confrontations in the Gulf, said spokesman Stéphane Dujarric, in a statement. The same source adds that António Guterres ap…
António Guterres called on the United States and Iran "to exercise maximum restraint and urgently resume negotiations."
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