Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today lashed out at the United Nations Security Council, which he said has turned into a “Council to protect Israel”, a day after the US vetoed a UN body resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. in the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons.

The US yesterday vetoed a UN resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip on humanitarian grounds, alongside the immediate and unconditional release of all Hamas hostages. The adoption of the resolution by the Council was urgently requested by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, invoking for the first time Article 99 of the Charter of the United Nations which allows the Secretary-General to draw attention to a matter that “could raise endangering the maintenance of international peace and security”. The draft resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates and supported by nearly 100 states was voted in favor by 13 members of the UN Security Council, voted against by the US, while Britain chose to abstain.

“Since October 7, the Security Council has turned into a Council for the protection and defense of Israel,” Erdogan complained in a speech today on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“The UN Security Council’s request for a ceasefire is rejected only by the US veto. Is this justice?” Erdogan said, saying “the world is bigger than five” countries, referring to the five permanent members of the Security Council – who have veto power – of which the US is one.

In this regard, the Turkish president repeated his request for reform of the SA. “The UN Security Council must be reformed,” he noted.

“Another world is possible, but without America. The US stands by Israel with its money and military equipment. Look, America. How much will you pay for this?”, stressed the Turkish president, underlining that: “Every day the Declaration of Human Rights is violated in Gaza”.

Following the statements of the Turkish president, his foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, after a meeting he had in Washington with his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken, during the visit with his counterparts from the countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League, said that the US veto of yesterday’s resolution was a “total disappointment”.