The Prime Minister, António Costa, defended this Thursday that the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, expressed himself with a “great humanist sense” in the statements he made about the degradation of the humanitarian situation in Palestine territory.
“On this issue the Portuguese Government already spoke yesterday [quarta-feira] in a clear and unequivocal manner of full support and solidarity with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who expressed with a great humanist sense, in the affirmation of international law and what are the resolutions approved at the UN, of which, naturally, [Guterres] is a spokesperson”said António Costa, at the entrance to a meeting of the European Council in Brussels.
These are statements by António Guterres made on Tuesday, at the opening of a meeting of the UN Security Council, in English, in which he considered “it is also important to recognize that the Hamas attacks did not emerge from nowhere,” adding that “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
The UN Secretary General maintained that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the terrible attacks by Hamas,” just as “these terrible attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
At the beginning of his speech, António Guterres stated that he “unequivocally condemns the horrific and unprecedented acts of terror by Hamas in Israel” and that “nothing can justify the deliberate killing, wounding and kidnapping of civilians – or the launching of missiles against civilian objectives”. “.
In reaction to these statements, at the same meeting, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen accused António Guterres of being out of touch with reality and of showing understanding for the Hamas attack on October 7 with a “shocking speech “.
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Gilad Erdan also announced that Israel would stop granting visas to UN representatives.
Source: TSF
