UN official calls for "genuine dialogue" to avoid confrontation in Middle East

Jacek Czaputowicz (C, front), Polish Foreign Minister and President of the UN Security Council for the month of August, addresses a Security Council meeting on challenges to peace and security in the Middle East, at the UN headquarters in New York, on Aug. 20, 2019. A United Nations official on Tuesday called for "restraint and genuine dialogue" to avoid major confrontation in the Middle East. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)