Security Council to discuss UN Gaza report next week

AFP

UNITED NATIONS - A contentious UN report blasting the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip will be discussed next week as part of a rescheduled UN Security Council debate on the Middle East, diplomats said Wednesday.
The compromise move by a divided council was agreed in closed-door consultations following a Libyan request, backed by Arab and nonaligned countries, for "an emergency meeting" to consider the UN report.

Security Council to discuss UN Gaza report next week
The report, released by an independent international fact-finding mission headed by former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone last month, accused Israel and Palestinian armed groups of committing war crimes during the three-week Gaza war that erupted December 27.
US deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff said the 15-member council merely agreed to bring forward the regular monthly debate on the Middle East from October 20 to next Wednesday.
Diplomats said Western ambassadors rejected the Libyan push for a meeting focused exclusively on the Goldstone report, which they say should be examined by the Geneva-based Human Rights Council.
But Arab ambassadors made it clear that they planned to use next Wednesday's debate to turn the spotlight on the findings of the report.
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