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UN Security Council to meet on events in Syria

Xinhua, April 7, 2017 Adjust font size:

The United Nations Security Council will meet at 11:30 a.m. Friday local time (1530 GMT) to discuss the events in Syria.

According to news sources obtained, the meeting of the 15-member council will be public.

According to a statement from the Office of Press and Public Diplomacy under the United States Mission to the United Nations, the meeting was requested by Bolivia.

"This morning, Bolivia requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting to discuss the events in Syria. It asked for the discussion to be held in closed session. The United States, as president of the Council this month, decided the session would be held in the open," says the statement.

The U.S. military on Thursday launched a targeted missile strike at a Syrian military airfield in its first direct assault on the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the Syria crisis began six years ago.

A total of 59 Tomahawk Land Attack missiles were launched from the destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea at about 8:40 p.m. EDT (4:40 a.m. on Friday in Syria), and Syrian aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, fuel points, air defense systems, and radars were targeted, according to a Pentagon statement.

At least nine civilians, including four children, were killed Friday by the missile attack in central Syria, state news agency SANA reported. Endi