United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told BRICS leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (October 24) that the world needed peace in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan, Reuters reports.
"Across the board, we need peace," Guterres said at the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan.
"We need peace in Ukraine. A just peace in line with the UN Charter, international law and UN General Assembly resolutions."
"The humanitarian situation in northern Gaza is the worst we have seen since this horrific nightmare began.
Our polio vaccination campaign should be underway now but we’ve been forced to suspend it due to relentless violence and a persistent lack of access. This places some of the war’s most vulnerable victims at further risk.
And in the central Gaza Strip, a strike took the life of yet another one of our UNRWA colleagues.
We urgently need a ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, effective aid delivery, an end to the occupation and irreversible progress toward a two-state solution," Guterres stated in
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