U.N. to investigate attacks on U.N.-supported facilities in Syria

World

1st August 2019

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends Lisboa+21 conference in Lisbon, Portugal on June 23, 2019. (REUTERS File Photo)

UNITED NATIONS, August 1 (Reuters): The United Nations will investigate attacks on U.N.-supported facilities in northwest Syria, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday, two days after two-thirds of the Security Council pushed for such an inquiry.

Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Belgium, Peru, Poland, Kuwait, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia delivered a demarche - a formal diplomatic petition - to Guterres on Tuesday over the lack of an inquiry into attacks on some 14 locations.