Middle East Quartet calls for preventing tensions in Gaza Strip

NEW YORK/MOSCOW - 27 September 2018: Representatives of the Middle East Quartet members (Russia, the US, the EU and the UN) have held a meeting on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, calling for efforts to prevent a new armed confrontation in the Gaza Strip, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday.

"Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin took part in the Middle East Quartet’s meeting dedicated to efforts aimed at facilitating negotiations between Palestine and Israel, as well as to the situation on the ground, particularly in the Gaza Strip," TASS News Agency quoted the statement as saying.

"The meeting’s participants expressed deep concern about the growing tensions in the Gaza Strip and called for efforts to prevent a new armed confrontation," the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed.