Guterres appreciates Qatari mediation efforts

Doha, The Gulf Observer: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres appreciated the Qatar’s mediation efforts to reach a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip, enabling the entry of more humanitarian aid, and the release of a number of hostages.

Addressing the Doha Forum 2023 opening session, he thanked Amir H. H. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the government of the State of Qatar for their mediation efforts to reach a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip, noting that the UN Security Council, which serves as the principle forum for international conflict resolution, has become paralyzed by geostrategic divisions, which has hindered reaching solutions on a number of issues, including those of the Middle East.

The UN Secretary-General said that the violent Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip was met with silence by the Security Council, and after more than a month a Council resolution was issued that was not implemented, and this delay had a heavy price, which exposed the SC’s credibility to great damage.