Qatar, holding presidency of UN Security Council in December, will hold high-level meeting on “sustainable peace” in the Middle East on 12 December
Qatar’s Ambassador Nassir Abdelaziz al-Nasser, who is President of the United Nations Security Council in December, announced that a special ministerial-level Security Council meeting will be held at UNHQ in NY on 12 December. The meeting, he said, would be chaired by Qatar’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani.
The question of Palestine, the Qatari Ambassador said, was of major concern to the international community and to the Security Council.Â
In answer to journalists’ questions on this meeting, the Qatari Ambassador said that the question of Palestine was the main problem in the Middle East and in the world. He explained that he would attempt to make the question of Palestine the main theme of his country’s presidency this month of the Security Council  – and, he said, as the main body responsible for maintaining peace and security in the world, the UN Security Council must play a role in the peace process in the Middle East.
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