UN Security Council approves peace agreement

The Security Council of the United Nations Organization approved on Wednesday an agreement that supports the request of Secretary General Antonio Guterres, to reach a world truce during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The resolution was unanimously approved and calls for a “general and immediate cessation of hostilities” in all conflicts on the Security Council’s agenda.

It also calls on the parties to facilitate a humanitarian truce of at least 90 days so that all people can protect themselves and be treated in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The division between the United States and China over issues such as the management and origins of the pandemic had made it impossible to conceive of such a position of peace. However, the drafting of a new version of the compromise, led by France and Tunisia, allowed it to be achieved.

However, the resolution “affirms that this general and immediate cessation of hostilities and the humanitarian pause does not apply to military operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISI, also known as Da’esh), Al Qaeda and Al Nusra Front (ANF), and all other individuals, groups, companies and entities associated with Al Qaeda or ISIL, and other terrorist groups, who have been designated by the Security Council. ”

At previous meetings, 170 UN member states, including civil society organizations and Pope Francis, passed a similar resolution supporting Guterres’s declarations of peace in the General Assembly, a deliberative body that includes all member countries, although their decisions are not binding.

Source: Telesur

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