Latest News:  

English>>World

Security Council slams attacks on UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights

(Xinhua)

08:30, June 07, 2013

UNITED NATIONS, June 6 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council on Thursday voiced its strong condemnation of "the intense fighting" in the separation area between Israel and Syria, including the attack leading to injuries of two UN peacekeepers on the Golan Heights.

"The members of the Security Council strongly condemned intense fighting in the Area of Separation, including the attack which led to injuries suffered by two UNDOF peacekeepers on June 6," the 15-nation UN body said in a press statement issued here.

UNDOF stands for the UN Disengagement Observer Force, which monitors the 1974 disengagement accord between Syria and Israel after their 1973 war.

"The members of the Security Council urged full respect of the disengagement agreement of 31 May 1974," the statement said.

Since last November, UNDOF has had its peacekeepers seized by armed groups, its observation posts attacked and looted, and its freedom of movement curtailed.

We recommend:

Photo of the innocent childhood
    

17th Gay Pride Parade held in Sao Paulo

Polar bear Inuka into new enclosure in Singapore Zoo

'50th Madaraka Day marked in Kenya

International Children's Day marked around world

Sudden rain hits Hyderabad, India

Email|Print|Comments(Editor:LiangJun、Yao Chun)

Leave your comment0 comments

  1. Name

  

Selections for you


  1. North Sea Fleet in replenishment training

  2. Internal photos of China's aircraft carrier "Liaoning"

  3. Chinese miners in Ghana

  4. Versatile Chengdu in SW China

  5. Former journalist draws pollution map of China

  6. Where's the bottom line of shows?

  7. Yuan Shanshan in white dress

  8. Sharapova reaches semifinals

  9. China's cloud computing chain ready

  10. Top Wine China 2013 Expo kicks off in Beijing

Most Popular

Opinions

  1. Law desiderated to protect interns' right
  2. China owes a huge debt to the environment
  3. China's middle class emerges, to spend more
  4. Xi-Obama meeting of milestone significance
  5. Violation of women's rights root of sexual assaults
  6. China not to tolerate rogue act on S. China Sea
  7. Imaginaion: essential for cultural confidence
  8. How ZTE is winning the US market
  9. Global IT and techno-jingoism
  10. Copycats stifle Chinese innovation

What’s happening in China

Breathing and Working Together:Mobile app tells you Beijing's environment

  1. China tops world in losing top-notch personnel
  2. Beijing hikes taxi base fare by 30 pct
  3. Shanghai ranks No.2 in research contributions
  4. 'Special marriage group' byproduct of social times
  5. Reservoir to be built in Huangpu's upper reaches