NSC urges UN to take tangible action against Israel

The National Shoora Council (NSC) has, in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Sunday, urged the UN to facilitate the grant of full membership in the UN to Palestine and to suspend Israel from the UN until Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in pursuance of the international warrant issued by the ICC for the arrest of Israel's PM.

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The following is the text of the letter dated 14th September 2025 addressed to the SG of the UN: "We believe that by now, you are well aware of the despicable chain of unpardonable crimes being committed, for well over a hundred years, by the Zionist regime to destroy Palestine and its multi-religious people! What must have become more clear is that the ongoing cruel facets of genocide of the Palestinians are aimed at establishing a territorially expanding nuclear armed Zionist ethno-religious European colonial power in the Middle East.

We are deeply concerned that Tuesday's Israeli attack in Qatar targeting the Hamas peace negotiators and the subsequently widening Israeli attacks on seven other Arab countries, without any provocation, in violation of international law are highly distressing and will adversely affect third world countries, including Sri Lanka for its oil supplies and prices.

Global oil price escalation due to Israeli aggression and destabilisation of the Middle East will adversely affect Sri Lanka.