Representatives from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations have called for the UN General Assembly to hold an emergency session on the situation in Syria, especially in Aleppo, in a joint statement issued on Sunday.
“The ongoing bloodshed in Syria and horrific humanitarian crisis in Aleppo warrants a call for an Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly to make recommendations on matters of international peace and security when the Security Council is unable to because of a lack of unanimity,” the statement reads.
The four countries commended the letter from the Permanent Representatives of Canada, Costa Rica, Japan, the Netherlands and Togo in which they request on behalf of 74 member-states, the holding of a formal plenary meeting of the General Assembly, but noted that “an emergency special session highlights a particular emergency or crisis… which merits separate treatment by the General Assembly.”
