This happened after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz declared UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres persona non grata.
At a daily press briefing, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller expressed the view that such measures do not enhance Israel’s international prestige or advance its interests.
“These actions are not of much help to Israel,” he said, adding that the UN does important work in Gaza and the Middle East, playing a key role in peace processes.
Therefore, he said, it is important that Israel continues to maintain relations with this organization.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, also criticized Israel Katz’s action. He noted that “it is the sovereign right of a country to declare persona non grata,” but stressed that this would not help the cause of peace. Zakharova took the opportunity to accuse the United States of blocking several UN Security Council resolutions, aggravating the situation and complicating diplomatic efforts.
It is worth noting that Antonio Guterres, throughout the war with the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, adopted an openly partial position towards Israel, sometimes crossing the borders of anti-Semitism. For example, he actually justified the October 7 kibbutzim massacre, saying that it did not occur in a vacuum, but was the result of 56 years of “suffocating occupation of the Palestinians,” and also indulged in other scandalous statements.
Kursor also reported that Biden spoke about a possible Israeli attack on Iran.
