United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Xinhua/Li Muzi/IANS)

World cannot afford another Gulf war, says UN chief

January 4, 2020

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders to show “maximum restraint” … reports Asian Lite News

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, flanked by Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, left, and Atefeh Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General for Information and Communications Technology, speaks at the high-level event to launch the UN Countering Terrorist Travel Programme on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. (Photo: UN/IANS)

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is “deeply concerned” by the US strike that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on Friday, and urged world leaders to show “maximum restraint”, his spokesman said.

“The Secretary General has consistently advocated for de-escalation in the Gulf. He is deeply concerned with the recent escalation,” his spokesman Farhan Haq said, the BBC reported.

“This is a moment in which leaders must exercise maximum restraint. The world cannot afford another war in the Gulf,” the spokesman quoted Guterres said.

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