GCC Urges Russia, Ukraine to Return to Diplomacy

A Ukrainian soldier looks through binoculars at a military check point, in Lityn, Ukraine, March 16, 2022. (AP)

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) expressed “grave concern” about the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and called for the need to return to diplomacy and resort to dialogue and peaceful negotiations between the parties to the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.

The GCC issued a statement before the United Nations general assembly’s emergency session on Ukraine, reaffirming that “GCC states are following up with deep concern the deteriorating situation in the Republic of Ukraine.”