
Events witnessed in region will escalate tensions and affect security and stability: GCC
RIYADH: GCC General Secretariat stressed that the events witnessed in the region today, including the direct targeting of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States of America, will escalate tensions and affect security and stability in the region.
GCC Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said in a statement that the Cooperation Council affirms the contents of the statement issued by the 48th Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the GCC Ministerial Council regarding developments in the region, and the GCC's condemnation of everything that threatens the security and stability of the region.
He also emphasised the need for an immediate ceasefire, for all parties to exert joint efforts to de-escalate tensions, adopt diplomacy as an effective means of resolving conflicts, and exercise the highest levels of self-restraint to spare the region and its people the dangers of war.
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