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SG/2100
07/07/2005
Press Release
SG/2100

JOINT STATEMENT AT G-8 SUMMIT CONDEMNING LONDON BOMBINGS

 


Following is the text of the joint statement issued in Gleneagles today by the Group of Eight + Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, India, China, United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and World Trade Organization (WTO) on the 7 July London bombings:

SC/8439
07/07/2005
Press Release
SC/8439

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON LONDON TERRORIST ATTACK


Following is the Security Council press statement on the London bombings delivered by Council President Adamantios Th. Vassilakis (Greece):


I wish first to express the Council’s outrage and indignation at today’s appalling terrorist attacks against the people of the United Kingdom that cost human life and caused injuries and immense human suffering.

SC/8438
07/07/2005
Press Release
SC/8438

Security Council

5223rd Meeting (PM)


SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS ‘BARBARIC’ LONDON TERRORIST ATTACKS,


UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1611 (2005)

 


Calling the terrorist attacks in London today “barbaric”, the Security Council condemned without reservation the attacks and expressed its utmost determination to combat terrorism in accordance with its Charter responsibilities.