Syria-Turkey tensions lead to Security Council emergency meeting `` realistic on a large warfare, '' February 7 at 10:49
As tensions between the Assad administration and neighboring Turkey rise in Syria during the civil war, the UN Security Council has an urgent meeting to discuss the response, and a special envoy of the UN said, `` The possibility of a large war breaks out. It called on the parties concerned to maximize their restraint.
In the ongoing civil war in Syria, troops from Assad's army, which was attacking the rebel's last stronghold in the northwestern Idlib province on March 3, bombarded troops stationed in neighboring Turkey to support the rebels. Tensions have risen after eight people have died.
In response, the UN Security Council held an urgent meeting on the 6th at the request of the United States, United Kingdom and France.
`` The clash between Syria and Turkey indicates that the potential for a major war has come to life, '' said UN secretary-general Pedersen, who took part in the video call from Switzerland at the beginning. In addition to urging the country to exercise maximum restraint, the United Nations ambassadors from the United States, Great Britain and France, who requested the meeting, urged the Assad administration and Russia to ensure that the ceasefire agreement in Idlib province was maintained.
Turkey's UN ambassador to Sinigiriol also emphasized that he would continue dialogue in order to comply with the ceasefire agreement, saying, `` A militant act, a military offensive against my army, will never be tolerated and will be severely punished. '' He stated that Syria had been repressed, but the Syrian and Russian sides blamed Turkey and the West for violating sovereignty, and the debate ended in parallel.