UN Leader Warns Iraq on ‘the Brink’

AFP
July 29, 2013

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned Monday that Iraq is on “the brink” after more coordinated attacks killed scores of Muslim Shiites, a spokesman said.

Ban is “alarmed” by the worsening security in Iraq, said deputy UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey.

“Iraq is at another crossroads,” Ban was quoted as saying by the spokesman.

“Its political leaders have a clear responsibility to bring the country back from the brink, and to leave no space to those who seek to exploit the political stalemate through violence and terror.”

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