UNSC Slams ‘Terrorist’ Attack in Beirut
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday strongly condemned last week’s “terrorist attack” which killed four people, including Lebanon’s top anti-terrorism investigator, in Beirut.
In a statement read by its president for the month, Libya’s U.N. Ambassador Giadalla Ettalhi, the 15-member body “condemned in the strongest terms” the attack that killed Captain Wissam Eid, a member of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, his bodyguard and two civilians.
Last week, U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon also slammed the attack.
“The members of the Security Council reiterated their condemnation of all targeted assassinations of Lebanese leaders, particularly since October 2004 and demanded an immediate end to the continuous use of intimidation and violence against Lebanese officials and institutions,” the statement noted.
Council members also stressed the importance of bringing “the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of this heinous crime” to justice as well as the need “to put an end to impunity in Lebanon.”
They also underscored the “importance of the unity of all the Lebanese people and of political dialogue.”(AFP
