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Published 03 Nov, 2024 07:00pm

Turkiye leads joint call to UN Security Council to halt arms shipments to Israel

Turkiye, along with 53 other signatories, has sent a joint letter to the UN Security Council urging it to take immediate action to halt the flow of weapons and ammunition to Israel, Anadolu reports according to an announcement by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

The letter was signed by 52 countries and two international organisations, and submitted to the UN on November 1, calling for a cessation of arms supplies to Israel.

“We must reiterate at every opportunity that selling weapons to Israel amounts to complicity in genocide,” Fidan said at a news conference in Djibouti, where he attended the third Ministerial Review Conference of Turkiye-Africa Partnership.

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