Article 99: The rarely used power exercised at UN over Israel-Hamas war
It's called "Article 99." And it hasn't been used for decades. Until this week.
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It's called "Article 99." And it hasn't been used for decades. Until this week.
There were protests outside the UN in NYC as demonstrators called for a cease-fire in Gaza as officials warned of a "humanitarian catastrophe."
In a first since 1961, the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres Wednesday December 06, 2023 invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter asking the UN Security Council (USNC) to take note of the “catastrophic” situation in Gaza and ensure immediate ceasefire.
The UN Chief has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter for the first time in his tenure of six years as the Secretary-General. The last time Article 99 was invoked was in 1989 under Peru's Javier Pérez de Cuéllar for a military escalation in Lebanon. Guterres' decision has once again irked Israel, who have vowed 'full force' attacks until Hamas is erased. , World News, Times Now
Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, used only once prior in 1971.