UN Security Council calls on Turkey to comply with international law
The United Nations Security Council expressed concern over Turkey’s cross-border shelling of the Syrian Kurdish People Protection Units (YPG) and called on Ankara to abide by international law following a meeting of the council on Tuesday.
The meeting was requested by Russia after Syria wrote to the council outlining its concerns over Turkey’s offensive. Turkey began shelling YPG positions on Saturday after Kurdish forces made territorial gains north of Aleppo.
“All members of the Security Council are agreed to ask for Turkey to comply with international law,” said Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN, Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, current president of the Security Council, speaking to media after the meeting.
Ramirez said that the UNSC had also discussed the bombing of two MSF hospitals and schools in northern Syria in which over 50 people were killed.
He added that no consensus had been reached over who was to blame because of information coming from different sources.
The meeting was requested by Russia after Syria wrote to the council outlining its concerns over Turkey’s offensive. Turkey began shelling YPG positions on Saturday after Kurdish forces made territorial gains north of Aleppo.
“All members of the Security Council are agreed to ask for Turkey to comply with international law,” said Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN, Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, current president of the Security Council, speaking to media after the meeting.
Ramirez said that the UNSC had also discussed the bombing of two MSF hospitals and schools in northern Syria in which over 50 people were killed.
He added that no consensus had been reached over who was to blame because of information coming from different sources.