UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, is deeply concerned about Sunday’s missile attack in Erbil, Iraq, said Farhan Haq, his deputy spokesman, yesterday.
The attack came at a critical moment for Iraq’s path to peace and stability. The secretary-general renewed his call on all concerned sides, to exercise restraint and avoid escalation, said the spokesman.
Guterres urged Iraq’s partners, to support Iraqi efforts, to advance regional peace and security, in accordance with the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and good neighbourly relations, said Haq.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), on Sunday, confirmed that it launched the attack on what it said, an Israeli intelligence base in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. The operation was in response to an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Mar 7, in which two IRGC officers were killed, the IRGC said, in a statement.
