UN urges resolution of Jerusalem shrine crisis
The UN Mideast envoy warned Tuesday that the crisis at the holy sites in Jerusalem has demonstrated the dangerous risk of turning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a religious conflict "and dragging both sides into the vortex of violence with the rest of the region."
Nikolay Mladenov also warned the UN Security Council that the risks of escalation and violence in the Middle East "continue to increase, despite the emergence of a newfound agreement among a number of countries of the need to stand united against terrorism and radicalism."
He said the Jerusalem crisis is resonating across the region as societies continue to fracture "along ethnic or religious lines" and extremist and opposition groups "continue to control large territories."
