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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
UN chief warns Arab leaders internal divisions breeding terror
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe UN secretary-general warns Arab leaders that their internal divisions have opened the door to foreign intervention and have helped breed sectarianism and terrorism.
Antonio Guterres tells Arab summit that while fighting terrorism is essential, “any success will prove ephemeral” without a political solution to Syria’s six-year-old civil war that allows Syrians to decide their own fate.
He says efforts to end conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Libya must “not distract us from seeking to heal the longest open wound in the region, the plight of the Palestinian people.”
Guterres says setting up a Palestinian state alongside Israel is the only solution to the conflict. He says Israeli settlements on war-won land are illegal, and called on Israel to halt construction.
— AP
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