Vietnam supports efforts to ensure peace, stability in Golan Heights

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the UN, has called on concerned parties to restrain and respect the UN Charter and the UN Security Council’s relevant resolutions and agreements to ensure peace and stability in the Golan Heights and the whole region as well.
Vietnam supports efforts to ensure peace, stability in Golan Heights ảnh 1Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the United Nations (Photo: VNA)
New York (VNA) –Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the UN,has called on concerned parties to restrain and respect the UN Charter and theUN Security Council’s relevant resolutions and agreements to ensure peace andstability in the Golan Heights and the whole region as well.

Quy made thecall while attending the UNSC’s quarterly meeting on the Golan Heights onOctober 2.

He affirmed Vietnam’sunchanged stance on regulations of the Golan Heights and voiced his concernover security challenges here, especially increasing violations of theagreement on disengagement of forces between the two sides.

The ambassador alsoasserted his support for the important role of the UN Disengagement ObserverForce (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights.

The UNSC also adoptedResolution 2546 on the extension of measures to fight migrant smuggling and human trafficking relatedto Libya.

The resolution allows member states, acting nationally orthrough regional organizations, to inspect vessels on the high seas off thecoast of Libya that they have reasonable grounds to suspect are being used formigrant smuggling or human trafficking. It also allows seizure of vessels thatare confirmed as being used for such activities./.
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