Diplomats trying to prevent escalation in Israel-Hezbollah conflict amid bombing campaign in Lebanon
that has brought Israel and the Shia militant group Hezbollah closer than ever to all-out war, despite fevered diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the conflict.headquarters and midtown Manhattan hotels for bilateral and ministerial meetings on issues from Atlantic Ocean ecology to Ukraine’s energy supply, before what the UN bills as its own “Super Bowl of global diplomacy”.
As of Monday, he was still slated to arrive in New York towards the end of the week and address the UN on Thursday or Friday. Mikati has already cancelled his trip to the US. The attacks harming civilians are “not only violations of international law but could amount to war crimes”, the statement said.
Netanyahu, a former UN ambassador in the 1980s, is famously critical of the institution, which he has accused of providing a forum for antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The summit will mark Joe Biden’s last address before the United Nations as the US president caps off five decades of government service with an effort to settle one of the globe’s most intractable conflicts.
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