The UN Security Council condemns the terrorist attack on the Russian Embassy in Kabul

New York (ST): The members of the UN Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack that targeted the Russian embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the day before yesterday, which was claimed by the terrorist organization “ISIS,” and resulted in the killing of six people, including two employees of the Russian embassy, and the wounding of several others.

In a statement carried by the United Nations website, the members of the Security Council called on “all parties concerned to respect and ensure the safety and security of diplomatic and consular premises and personnel of United Nations Member States,” stressing the fundamental principle of the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and the obligations of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to take all appropriate steps to protect diplomatic relations and consular premises and to prevent any breach of the security of these missions or prejudice to their dignity or any attack on diplomatic premises, agents and consular staff.

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