{"id":76049,"date":"2021-04-15T00:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/76049-un-security-council-to-meet-on-tigray-crisis.html"},"modified":"2021-04-15T00:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T22:23:02","slug":"un-security-council-to-meet-on-tigray-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/76049-un-security-council-to-meet-on-tigray-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council to meet on Tigray crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             The United Nations Security Council is set to meet Thursday to discuss the crisis in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region following a US request, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            In early March Lowcock called for Eritrea to withdraw its troops from Tigray, in the first recognition by a UN official of Eritrea's involvement in the fighting there.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            UN officials in Geneva have accused the Eritrean army of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Tigray. Asmara rejects the accusations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Thursday's meeting will be a closed-door session similar to the March 4 meeting on Tigray.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken of \"ethnic cleansing\" in Tigray, where Eritrean troops also intervened to fight the local ruling party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Security Council is set to meet Thursday to discuss the crisis in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region following a US request, diplomatic sources said Wednesday. 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