China's permanent representative to the U.N., Fu Cong, said during a Security Council briefing on Wednesday, that it needed to make clear and unequivocal demands to stop the cycle of violence over the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.
"The Security Council bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security," the official Xinhua news agency reported Fu as saying, noting that all parties concerned "must return to the track of political and diplomatic solutions".
Iran has shown "exceptional" restraint for two months amid Israeli attacks, Russia's UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia told a special meeting of the UN Security Council.
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