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Gulf countries\u2019 demand to end attacks by Iran backed by 135 countries at UN Security Councilpublished at 22:48 GMT 11 March<\/p>\n

22:48 GMT 11 March<\/p>\n

\"\"Nada Tawfik
Reporting from the United Nations in New York<\/p>\n

The Gulf countries\u2019 draft garnered the largest number of co-sponsors on record for a resolution \u2013 135 countries backed it. <\/p>\n

Bahrain said it showed this was not just a regional matter, but recognition of the vital importance of the Gulf for global stability and energy security. <\/p>\n

The US said Iran\u2019s strategy of sowing chaos and holding neighbours hostage had clearly backfired. <\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Russia and China both said they had abstained on the vote because the resolution didn\u2019t fully reflect the root cause and overall picture of the conflict in a balanced manner. <\/p>\n

The text did not mention the US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran, which the UN Secretary General has also deemed a violation of the UN charter. <\/p>\n

Russia also doubted the Gulf countries\u2019 assertion that their territories weren\u2019t being used to strike Iran. <\/p>\n

Bahrain expressed sadness over that claim and said the Gulf countries had never been used to launch attacks. <\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s competing draft – that instead urged ALL parties to stop fighting – failed to get enough votes to pass. <\/p>\n

Iran accused those who supported the Gulf country\u2019s draft of allowing political considerations to take precedence over the protection of the UN charter, calling it a stain on the council\u2019s record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gulf countries\u2019 demand to end attacks by Iran backed by 135 countries at UN Security Councilpublished at 22:48…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-325044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}