UN General Assembly will hold a meeting on the situation in the Middle East on May 20

This was announced by the chairman of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkyr on Twitter.

“I received a letter from the representatives of Niger and Algeria to the UN with a request to convene a meeting of the UN General Assembly on the topics“ Situation in the Middle East ”and“ Palestine question ”to discuss the difficult situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In accordance with this appeal, I am convening a plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly on Thursday, May 20 at 10:00 (17:00 Moscow time), "he wrote.

Earlier it was reported that special representatives of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators held emergency consultations on May 16 in the format of a teleconference.