Jordan to request emergency UN meeting on Israel
UNITED NATIONS - Jordan will request an emergency UN Security Council meeting on behalf of the Palestinians, who have written to the council president about "dangerously escalating tensions" in East Jerusalem, a spokesman for Jordan's mission to the United Nations said Monday.
Laith Ibrahim Obeidat confirmed the request and said his country, a council member, will ask the council president to set a date.
A letter from Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour to the council president on Monday calls on the international community to demand that Israel "cease forthwith all of its illegal settlement activities" in East Jerusalem and elsewhere.
