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Response to Paris attacks must be based on law: UN

Sunday, 15 November 2015 3:20 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 15 November 2015 5:13 PM ]

The United Nations (UN)’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Photo by AFP)

The United Nations (UN)’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that any response to a recent string of coordinated terrorist attacks in France must respect human rights and be based on law.

Speaking at the G20 summit of world leaders in the Turkish Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya on Sunday, the UN chief said that the response to the Paris attacks should be “robust, but always within the rule of law.”

Ban also warned against any tension-raising actions that could fuel tensions and “only perpetuate the cycle of hatred and violence.”

“Otherwise we will only fan the fire we are trying to put out,” the UN chief said.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ban also described the Paris attacks as “barbaric,” saying no city or country was immune from the threat of terrorism.

At least 129 people were killed and roughly 350 injured, nearly 100 of whom in critical condition, after assailants struck at least six different venues in and around the French capital, Paris, late on Friday.

Rescuers evacuate an injured person on Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, close to the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, early on November 14, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

In a statement on Saturday, the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for the bloody attacks. Also on Saturday, Daesh released an undated video, threatening to attack France as long as it continued to participate in a US-led aerial campaign purportedly against Daesh in Iraq and Syria.

“As long as you keep bombing you will not live in peace. You will even fear traveling to the market,” said a Daesh member in the footage.

Daesh terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Syria and Iraq. They have been engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.

The United States and its allies have been conducting airstrikes against purported Daesh positions in Iraq and Syria since last year.

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