Ambassador Giang called on all sides to immediately cease fire, respect international humanitarian law, and do everything necessary to protect lives, including ensuring the safety of and immediate release of all hostages, minimizing damage to essential civilian infrastructure in line with the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2573 issued in 2021.

Giang called on the international community to create favorable conditions to end the fighting, resume dialogue and negotiations, allow humanitarian access, and deploy timely and unhindered humanitarian relief operations to reach people in need of assistance, while ensuring the safety of humanitarian aid workers.

Giang expressed his support for mediation efforts by the UN, UN member countries, and international organizations. He said that in the long term it is necessary to stop activities that incite more violence and hatred between the two sides, stop the expansion of settlements in the West Bank, the destruction of homes, and the expulsion of Palestinians, and respect the status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem. 

Giang proposed resuming the activities of the Middle East Quartet, urged parties to return to negotiations to resolve the root causes, aiming to achieve a two-state solution in accordance with international law and relevant UN resolutions, including the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, peacefully coexisting alongside the state of Israel, with internationally recognized borders based on pre-1967 borders.