Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the United Nations General Assembly should recommend the use of force, in line with a resolution it passed in 1950, if the U.N. Security Council fails to stop Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon.
President Erdogan made the call after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.
The resolution says the U.N. General Assembly can step in if disagreements among the Security Council’s five permanent veto-wielding powers – Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States – mean they fail to maintain international peace.
The Security Council is the only U.N. body that can normally make legally binding decisions, such as authorising use of force and imposing sanctions.
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Turkey, a member of NATO, has decried Israel’s attack in Gaza, and also condemned its recent attacks in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah militants. It has halted all trade with Israel and applied to join a genocide case against Israel at the World Court, which Israel rejects.
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