{"id":118782,"date":"2021-04-15T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118782"},"modified":"2021-04-15T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:35:18","slug":"un-security-council-to-meet-on-tigray-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118782","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council to meet on Tigray crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/UN-Security-Council-to-meet-on-Tigray-crisis.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/UN-Security-Council-to-meet-on-Tigray-crisis.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, April 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United Nations Security Council is set to meet Thursday to discuss the crisis in Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region following a US request, diplomatic sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 15 Security Council members will hear from UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock, who will talk about the continued difficulties in getting aid to refugees, according to the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early March Lowcock called for Eritrea to withdraw its troops from Tigray, in the first recognition by a UN official of Eritrea\u2019s involvement in the fighting there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN officials in Geneva have accused the Eritrean army of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Tigray. Asmara rejects the accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday\u2019s meeting will be a closed-door session similar to the March 4 meeting on Tigray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time China and Russia opposed adopting a unanimous statement calling for an end to violence in the region as both countries consider the matter an internal Ethiopian affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia is a longstanding US ally, but Washington has been increasingly alarmed since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military offensive in Tigray in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken of \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d in Tigray, where Eritrean troops also intervened to fight the local ruling party. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, April 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United Nations Security Council is set to meet Thursday to discuss the crisis in Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region following a US request, diplomatic sources said. The 15 Security Council members will hear from UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock, who will talk about the continued difficulties in getting aid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}