The UN Safety Council has adopted a decision demanding that support employees be protected

The decision was adopted on Friday with 14 votes to 0. Russia abstained from voting.

The decision calls for that every one nations respect and defend support employees and UN personnel as required by worldwide legislation. It additionally calls on all nations and events to armed conflicts to respect humanitarian legislation and their obligations beneath the Geneva Conventions.

The proposal was put ahead by Switzerland. Within the textual content, nice concern is expressed about an growing variety of assaults and threats towards support employees and UN workers, in addition to a scarcity of respect for and violations of humanitarian legislation amongst events to warfare.

190 UN workers killed

The decision doesn’t point out the warfare on the Gaza Strip or another ongoing armed battle, however it’s adopted concurrently warfare is raging in each Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar and a number of other different nations.

Nevertheless, in no different warfare have so many UN workers and support employees been killed as within the Israeli warfare in Gaza. The warfare has value the lives of 190 UN workers, a quantity that’s fully unprecedented within the UN’s 80-year historical past, in keeping with Secretary-Common António Guterres.

– Easy and essential

Support employees from different organizations have additionally been killed, together with seven workers of World Central Kitchen, who have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in April whereas they have been working to ship meals to Gaza’s ravenous inhabitants.

– The objective of the decision is so simple as it’s important. It’s about defending women and men who work and threat their lives, day by day, to assist individuals affected by armed battle, Swiss UN Ambassador Pascale Baeriswyl instructed the AP information company the day earlier than the decision was adopted.