UN Security Council to meet on persecution of Christians in Middle East

The UN Security Council is to meet on March 27 to oppose the growing persecution of Christians in the Middle East, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday.

In an interview with BFM TV, the French minister commented that they have called the meeting because it is “completely unacceptable what has been done to these minorities”.

“We are on the side of the persecuted minorities,” Fabius, whose country currently presides over the Security Council, told a press conference in Rabat. In France he has already developed measures to help and provide asylum for Middle Eastern Christians.

He explained that the March 27 meeting, which he would himself chair, would demonstrate an international will not to accept atrocities committed by jihadists who “deny that minorities have the right to exist”.

Referring to the Islamic State group, he said: “Daesh and terrorists who are with them simply want to eradicate, physically remove, and guillotine anyone who doesn't think like them.”

The French diplomacy chief, who visited several Christian communities that were affected by Islamic terrorism last year, emphasised that this meeting is “a calling to the world”, to fight for those Christians who suffer persecution, especially in Iraq, Syria, and the whole Middle East region.