The rotating president of the council gets to choose the subject and participants for some meetings. Monday’s meeting was scheduled before the war began. The council’s last meeting, on Saturday, was a contentious emergency session called in response to the start of the war.
Guterres condemned the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes as violations of international law, including the U.N. Charter. He also condemned retaliatory attacks for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations in the Mideast.
