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China pushes cease-fire at UN as Asia echoes call to end Iran war
The United Nations Security Council meets after the U.S attack on Iran's nuclear sites, at U.N. headquarters in New York on June 22. © Reuters
Nikkei staff writers
TOKYO -- China's ambassador to the United Nations issued a fresh rebuke of U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at an emergency Security Council meeting, as governments across Asia warily assessed a new era in the Middle East.
U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to enter the Israel-Iran conflict by bombing three key nuclear sites over the weekend "seriously violated the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law, infringed upon Iran's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, aggravated tensions in the Middle East and severely impacted the international nuclear non-proliferation system," Ambassador Fu Cong said on Sunday at the U.N. in New York, according to China's Xinhua state news agency.
