UN Security Council to meet on Friday over Lebanon pager blasts
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Ambulances arriving at a hospital in Beirut on Sept 17, following a wave of pager explosions across Lebanon.
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UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Security Council will meet on Sept 20 over the pager blasts in Lebanon targeting militant group Hezbollah, said Slovenia's UN Ambassador Samuel Zbogar, president of the 15-member council for September.
The meeting was requested by Algeria on behalf of Arab states, he said.
Earlier on Sept 18, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the pager blasts targeting Hezbollah
"Obviously, the logic of making all these devices explode is to do it as a pre-emptive strike before a major military operation," he told reporters, ahead of the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly .
He also said that it was very important not to weaponise civilian objects.
Mr Guterres "urges all concerned actors to exercise maximum restraint to avert any further escalation," his spokesman Stephane Dujarric later said, in a statement. REUTERS
