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Turkey delivers letter to UN demanding halt to arms sales to Israel
3 November 2024 17:42 GMT
Turkey submitted a letter to the United Nations calling for a halt in arms deliveries to Israel, the country's foreign ministry said.
“We have written a joint letter calling on all countries to stop the sale of arms and ammunition to Israel. We delivered this letter, which has 54 signatories, to the UN on November 1,” Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at a press conference in Djibouti.
“We must repeat at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide,” said Fidan. The letter is “an initiative launched by Turkey”.
Among the signatories were Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Algeria, China, Iran and Russia. The Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation were also signatories to the letter.