Arab nations at the United Nations are fine-tuning a proposed UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN ambassador, says it’s essential that the UN’s most powerful body demand a halt to the conflict.
Surrounded by members of the 22-nation Arab Group, Mansour also told reporters a ministerial delegation from Arab nations and the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation, headed by Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, will be in Washington on Thursday to meet US officials.
“On top of the agenda is this war has to stop,” he said. “A ceasefire has to take place and it has to take place immediately.”
Source: AlJazeera