Security Council

NEW YORK - Serbia's Ambassador to the UN Nemanja Stevanovic submitted on Monday a request by the Republic of Serbia to call an extraordinary UNSC session over the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

Stevanovic submitted the request to the political adviser of the Guyanese mission to the UN.

Guyana is presiding over the UNSC.

The request was submitted to the Guyana Mission to the political adviser in the mission of this country, which is the chair of the United Nations Security Council.

BEIJING - A spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday Pristina's unilateral actions were not conducive to a settlement of the Kosovo-Metohija issue and added that the territorial integrity of Serbia should be respected in the process of finding a solution.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Friday Belgrade would request an urgent UNSC session over the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

In a public address from the Palace of Serbia, Vucic said Serbia's representative to the UN would submit a written request on Monday.

The U.N. Security Council will meet next week over the decision by the global body's top court calling for Israel to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza, the council's presidency announced Friday.

A single town in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region has seen 10,000 to 15,000 people killed since April, with paramilitaries allied with Arab militias potentially committing crimes against humanity there, according to a U.N. report on Jan. 22.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has raised international alarm over Iran's recent missile strikes, warning that these actions, coupled with the Red Sea tensions involving the Houthi rebels, foreshadow an impending escalation of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

The UN Security Council has asked Yemen's Houthi rebels to immediately stop attacks on vessels in the Red Sea that began in November.

Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will visit Riyadh on Thursday, where he is scheduled to meet with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.

The United Nations named an outgoing Dutch minister its humanitarian coordinator for Gaza on Tuesday following last week's watered-down Security Council resolution which called for aid to be delivered to the strip "at scale."