UN could meet with Israel PM despite warrant: UN

UN Secretary Peculiar Antonio Guterres and Netanyahu haven’t spoken since the struggle started as a results of the Hamas assault against Israel on October 7, 2023, even though there were contacts with the Israeli leader by UN officers in the placement

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22 November, 2024, 12:55 pm

Closing modified: 22 November, 2024, 12:56 pm

The arrest warrant issued against Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the struggle in Gaza doesn’t bar UN officers from meeting with him for the duration of their work, the UN acknowledged Thursday.

UN Secretary Peculiar Antonio Guterres and Netanyahu haven’t spoken since the struggle started as a results of the Hamas assault against Israel on 7 October 2023, even though there were contacts with the Israeli leader by UN officers in the placement.

Guterres has been declared persona non grata by Israel, which accuses him of being biased in desire of the Palestinians. So talks between him and Netanyahu are most now not going.

After the warrants issued Thursday by the World Prison Court against Netanyahu, inclined protection minister Yoav Audacious and Hamas’s navy chief Mohammed Deif, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric acknowledged UN policy on contacts with people going by arrest warrants dates encourage to a file issued in 2013.

“The guideline is that there will bear to tranquil now not be any contacts between UN officers and people discipline to arrest warrants,” Dujarric acknowledged.

However restricted contacts are allowed “to take care of fundamental points, operational points, and our means to attain our mandates,” he added.

In unhurried October, at a summit of the BRICS international locations in Russia, Guterres met with President Vladimir Putin, who faces an arrest warrant from the ICP over the struggle in Ukraine.

That meeting, all by which Guterres reiterated his condemnation of the Russian invasion, angered Ukraine.