Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invoked what is widely considered to be the most powerful diplomatic tool at his disposal.
In a letter to the UN Security Council, Guterres invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, which states that “the Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security”.
The letter represents the first time Guterres has invoked the article since he took over the role of UN secretary-general on January 1, 2017.
In the letter, Guterres calls for the Security Council to press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and appeals for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared in Gaza.
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When US goes to war after 911 , no one says its wrong and during its invasion but why some much noise on Israel where their people are killed, sexually abused and raped by terrorist ?
When are you going to invoke your useless power on the war in Ukraine, Syria and Sudan? Hypocrites 🤣
Why only now..the UN urges article 99..not In between Russia and Ukrain..when Russia started initiative to start the war?..this article 99 should implemented first..why bowdown to group of terrorist like hamas..
Call for the unconditional release of the innocent people kidnapped by Hamas before calling for any useless cease-fire! Hypocrite!
The US lost it’s right to veto during the Vietnam War, with the killing of 2 million Vietnamese civilians. The US is an absolute discrace in the world community. The United Nations should eject them. After all they keep moaning that they pay too much money to the UN.
So why didn’t Guterres invoke Article 99 on the Russia /Ukraine war?
Israel is killing alot of innocents compared to Russia focusing on. Military personnel
Thank you Secretary General sir, you are a brave and honest man in the time of hypocrisy and cowardness.
Mr Secretary General, you have it all wrong – you must call on Hamas to surrender!
iosrael is too tense…
The UN must call on Hamas to surrender and pressure all countries that support Hamas to call on them to surrender!
All Arab countries must call on Hamas to surrender and halt all support to Hamas!
I wish the UN would spend the same amount of effort and stance on getting the Israeli Hostages released, that may stop further Israeli action. Lives on all sides matter, it can’t just be the line of the Arab world.
Secretary General Gutierez has mediocre governing experience. The UN needs a leader with organizational and governmental distinction.
Article 99 reminds me of its flipside Order 66.
The republic order to hunt down & eliminate with extreme prejudice of all the Jedi.
Much respect! The US should have no say as they are supporting genocide!
I agree this is a time for Us ordinary citizen question their government and the politicians for being quiet and not asking Israel to stop. This is pathetic. We are a Christian country and must uphold morals of humanity.
Simple solution …Kick US out as counsel member until Trump becomes president
ANTONNIO IS A GAY HE WORKS FOR ISRAEL HE IS A GAY
The security council must CANCEL the veto right for the US!!! As it doesn’t deserve it!!
The path will be: *Article 99… US veto… Resolution 377A.*
In the case of a US veto, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) may invoke resolution 377 A, the “Uniting for Peace” resolution, states that in any cases where the Security Council, because of a lack of unanimity among its five permanent members (P5), fails to act as required to maintain international security and peace, the General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately and may issue appropriate recommendations to UN members for collective measures, including the use of armed force when necessary, in order to maintain or restore international security and peace.
⌛ NO TIME
The un created this situation in gaza and now they’re doing a theatre. 😂
Haha I compared the US to Star Wars Empire and my comment got deleted.🤣🤣🤣
Just a Q, how about an article 99 against Hamas, proclaiming the active extinction of all Jewish people in this world.
you have no brain… the truth is, the land belongs to Palestine! Like it or not!
Come on America. Everyone is saying stop but you and Israel. Insanity
UN had all Article code but never use to peoples but for themselelves n gangs to demolish humans
God Bless 🙏🏻❤️🩹
Change the rules and cancel U.S. veto vote. Hello, the people protesting in U.S. every other day. We dont want to support Israel. Cancel that Veto
What about Ukraine? What is this double standard?
LONG LIVE ISRAEL! 🇮🇱
What is Gutierrez going to do about the genocide in western Sudan, for example?
Darker-skinned tribes are being targeted for persecution, rape, enslavement, and death by so-called Arabs. Yet this has barely punctured the thick fog of a news cycle dominated by the Israel-Hamas war.
When does the outside world care care about the fate of Africans?
Does the fact that such crises are endemic to that continent mean that its people are unworthy of attention?
This myopia, this extreme partiality toward the ‘Palestinian cause’, this failure this refusal to condemn the gross iniquity and barbarism of Hamas, is all too typical of ‘politically correct’ diplomats like Gutierrez.
Only Israel is expected to lie down and take a beating without a murmur>
What other country, except possibly Ukraine, is routinely denied the right to defend itself?
What are they going to do, send a UN expeditionary fore to bring Israel to heel militarily?
Gutierrez is also very angry and indignant about the climate crisis. Let him set an example by denying himself air travel. One hears that commercial aviation is hard on the environment, which is not surprising.
Those of us who don’t drive and can’t afford to travel must be sitting pretty.
But one loses all the points one has gained, if one does not prefer Hamas to Israel.
That’s morality according to the United Nations.
Just another reason the UN has been irrelevant for decades now.
Meaningless drivel from a paper tiger with no teeth.
For UN.. Urges for two state solution with 1967 border agreement and golan back to syria.. Peace will come
Full of Respect to UN General Secretary Guterress, it was brave and correct decicion he make, i hope it will make a lot of Change for the situation, I think this 99 article will affect the member who have a veto to think it twice to keep supporting the genocide act.
Terrorist cannot go on
Gutierrez should resign because he is incapable of impartiaity. He is doing Hamas’ job for them at a time when they are doing quite poorly in their military operations.
Are they banking on a UN force entering the fray to oppose Israel on their behalf?
The god of islam is not doing ‘its’ job, because ‘it’ does not exist.
As for the real God, the God of the Bible, they break all His commandments and refuse to believe in His Son, so why should He favor and prosper them?
So yes, the terrorists must rely on a corrupt UN for support——so corrupt that its head seems unaffected by graphic evidence of the grotesque rape and torture of Israeli women and girls.
Who are you?another jewish hitler son?
It is easy to love ‘humanity in general’. This does not mean that one loves actual individual human beings.
Unfortunately some people at the UN can’t even arrive at the first. They do not consider Jews as ‘worthy’ as their neighbors.
Israel is expected to lie down and take a beating whereas others are allowed to commit the most grotesque atrocities without provocation, and get away with it.
Hamas knew that all along, and appears to have Gutierrez firmly in the palm of its hand.
Their fellow-Arabs seem less attentive than he to their piteous howls.
Egypt is quite choosy about letting Palestinians in.
What, do they not trust their brethren?
The fact that he has not invoked this article before gives some indication of where this man’s loyalties do NOT lie———with civilian victims of all OTHER conflicts besides this one.
Have there not been several during his tenure, with comparable or greater death tolls?
But who even bothers to count the bodies of dark-skinned people in faraway places?
Let all people of good faith unite in our prayers to the one true God to stop the bloodshed. This can only be done when all truths come out in an international court on human rights abuse after 75 years. This is the time of reconciliation for truth and righteousness for true Peace, not from lies.
Its already a humantarian disaster!! Its a genocide, murder of unarmed people, where are all these fancy world leaders and entities talk and no action !!!!
The UN is useless. We all remember how they’ve handled other situations, like Rwanda
WAS THIS INVOKED DURING THE US AND UK WAR ON AL QAEDA, AFGHAN AND IRAQ WARS??? HOW ABOUT THE INVASION OF UKRAINE?? WHY NOT FOCUS ON PUTIN? RACIST, ANTI -SEMITISM AT ITS BEST…
The EU UN The wef the who are allll involved with lying to everyone about the non-existence of climate change and global warming, it is nothing more than a great big lie to take away peoples freedoms and put them all in one world money market digital dollar to control everybody and reduce the earths population.
Useless AND biased
Clear Antisemitism. The UN is a joke organisation.
the truth is, the land belongs to Palestine! Like it or not!
@@cy1216the Jewish claim to Israel predates Palestine by over 2000 years…
@@misterpebbles don’t be stupid
The totally useless UN only TALKS, but NO ACTION!
It means nothing
MIGHT IS RIGHT
SC IS AMERICA
UN IS AMERICA
AMERICA IS TERRORIST; has all power
Simple
UN is a pointless useless waste of money, Israel laughs at the UN 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The UN secretary general is trying to save innocent lives. The biggest supporter of human rights and democracy is allowing the killing to continue. Shameful and disgusting…
The people of the United States should demand that the Biden government stop its support for the Zionists (Fake Jews) who have committed genocide against the Palestinian people who are struggling to escape Israeli Zionist colonialism, if Biden doesn’t want to then drag him to the international human rights court with Netanyahu and the IDF
The war is horrific! Nonsense killing both sides started by Hamas on October 7! On videos I can see the fear,helplessness of Palestine moving out of war zone! What hamas gained in this war? Israel will not stop unless hostages is release! Hamas pity innocent people of Palestine cannot feel the pain of losing my friends gunned down by hamas on October 7 Music festival, but i feel the pain for innocent Palestine!!! Its a nonsense war!!!!
Howz that marrying the UN to HAMAS through UNRWA, trafficing in hostages, working out for ya, you grubby UN deathmongers? The UN needs conflict to justify its existence. Got on the wrong side of this one.
Most powerful Diplomatic tool? Don’t make me laugh! That just proves UN has no power.
We need to move UN to SOUTH AFRICA AND REORGANIZE, HAVE PROPORTINAL REPRESENTATIVES AND NO VETO
IZRAEL TERORIST IZRAEL TERORIST IZRAEL TERORIST IZRAEL TERORIST
The UN is incompetent, impotent and corrupt. Where were you. Darfour, Rwanda, Yugoslavia…. The peace in the middle east will be exacted and it’s because the UN hasn’t done it’s godamn job for 40 years. Now STFU… and know you are sitting this one out… AS USUAL!!
Thank you Mr Guterres for updating the world on the UN measures to move the Security Council to vote on the crucial and long-discussed ceasefire in Gaza. Really commendable, but when and how will intervention take place? Do these voting members realize that every new dawn brings more death and destruction for these traumatized people?
So if I work with UN and say ceasefire, people listen to me? Lmao I might as well start a random organization since this looks like a game and people are sheep.
Gaza celebrated Oct 7 you celebrate what you’re receiving now and chat. God is great because God is giving you what you gave others that they didn’t deserve so please chat God is great.
U.N no credibilty.
Benjamin is a little Baby killer
American Imperialism And Israel NWO want to kill women and Children…
There’s no point in wasting time with the UN because they’re talking about one side of the hostages and dismissing the other side of the kidnapping, oppression, and imprisonment of children men and women in the occupying West bank. They’re always feeding people with the occupiers narratives. Nothing but talking about the October
7 stories again
and again which is not even comparable to the massacring of Palestinian children that was done by the occupation forces in gaza.
The bottom line is the UN is made by the west made in the west and made for the west.
The UN, who hasn’t prevented a war or stopped any crazed warlords… wants to help?
Gutierrez is a HAMAS puppet.
A simple question: why do you think Russia and China support this ceasefire? Because they are peace loving???
Guitarres is a freaking clown.
He stir up the problem in Ukrain and now in Gazza. This guy is far from been honest. He is a trouble maker.
Why should there be a Ceasefire? Where are the hostages and terrorists who have them? Why does NO Arab country take Gaza citizens in? Especially Egypt? Tell me.
A99 doesn’t work ..US will veto anything! ..so whats the use?!!
..as i said previously, the UN is a useless one big show, if not, a big joke! ..Fact ☝
..Close it and go home.
Hamas created the war and other organisations terrorism
Israel have the right to defend to be freedom from terrorism
UN should work together with Israel to destabilise terrorism and bring them to justice criminal war terrorism organisation including the top leaders supply weapons to terrorism to attack others countries and deploy terrorists
Making billions dollars with wars to start other wars same where
No ceasefire until World War 3 ends
“Article 27(3), both elected and permanent members must abstain from certain votes about issues where they are among the interested parties.” If the USA is supplying $15 billion in weapons to Israel, they are obviously “interested parties”. The USA should not vote on a ceasefire in Gaza.
“By adopting A/RES/377 A, on 3 November 1950, over two-thirds of UN Member States declared that, according to the UN Charter, the permanent members cannot and should not prevent the General Assembly from taking any and all action necessary to restore international peace and security in cases where the Security Council has failed to exercise its “primary responsibility” for maintaining peace. ” Wikipedia, UN Security Council Veto
Israel is commiting war crimes and genocide by full support of White house providing arms and finance USA is predendinh civilised and democratic
Israel thinks they are perfect since many powerful countries supports them but idiots only support an idiot
USA is not democratic supporting Israel for war crimes and war crimes
All jazirra is only one side propeganda !!!!!!
Guterres warned that “there is no effective protection of civilians.” “Attacks from air, land and sea are intense, continuous and widespread. So far, they have reportedly hit 339 education facilities, 26 hospitals, 56 healthcare facilities, 88 mosques and three churches,” he said. At least 286 health workers have been killed. Over 60 percent of Gaza’s housing has reportedly been destroyed – some 300,000 houses and apartments. UN Chief Antonio Guterres says ‘Over 60% of Gaza’s Housing Destroyed or Damaged, Forcing 85% of Population from Homes’. Guterres also warned that Gazans are running out of food. He cited the World Food Programme as saying that there is “a serious risk of starvation and famine.” In northern Gaza, 97 percent of households are not eating enough. In the south, the figure among displaced people is 83 percent. Adding to the tragedy, Guterres mentioned the death of ‘more than 130’ UN colleagues, many of whom perished alongside their families. This significant loss of humanitarian workers has further heightened the challenges faced by the rest of the international community in providing necessary aid and support to the affected region. Israel’s more than two-month military campaign has killed more than 17,400 people in Gaza — 70% of them women and children — and wounded more than 46,000, which says many others are trapped under rubble. Israël does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths.
Antonio Got-to-rest!
Salute to Mr Gutierrez 👏👏
Glad to se that nonsense is gone for good now. We all know how hamas honors a ceasefire.
No article 99 to stop the Russians from attacking Ukraine? or in the Syrian civil war?
Russia vote to cease fire? Its a joke 😂
Looks like Israel has a new precedent as to what you can get away with by simply ignore the U.N…and it looks like America is giving it the OK…I think America knows that they would be powerless to stop Israel anyway..not a good sign and one that will used from now on for anybody that wants to do the same or similar…
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All the US should revoke the USA’s seat.
Where is in secretary general when CCP genocide uyghur? Does he condemn ccp
Where is in secretary when CCP virus killing people all around the world
USA is the biggest terrorist on the planet
Al jaazeera is a propaganda tool only taking oneside. Why dont you tell the truth about Israel. Palestine is not mentioned once in the muslim Quran. Therefore, Palestine does not exist. Tell the truth. Is that not what journalists are supposed to do.
Mr Antonio Guterres, you are the angel of the UN and international community. Proud of you
Nice you
The UN security council wants a ceasefire to be imposed immediately (without the release of the hostages.) and they want to leave Hamas in power. They also say this will put an end to all the bloodshed and create peace and stability. How? Harry Potter has just been drafted.