Lavrov on Gaza and Hormuz UN plans and Islamabad deal

Nov 17, 2025

After questions about Trump's rejection of Iran's seven-day proposal and the unimplemented Gaza arrangements under Security Council resolution 2803, Lavrov criticizes what he regards as unfulfilled resolutions and Western hidden agendas. He recalls resolution 1244 on Kosovo and says its guarantees have not been observed. He then recalls the Quartet Road Map and a resolution intended to produce Palestinian statehood; on air he cannot remember its name and tentatively places it in the mid-1990s. His chronology and recollection remain attributed. Discussing resolution 2803, he says Russia and China abstained because the draft gave the UN no meaningful role, but Arab states and Palestinians asked them not to veto it. Returning explicitly to Iran, he describes the Islamabad memorandum signed at the highest level as a fair arrangement and asks why the parties cannot return to it. He does not equate the earlier memorandum with the newly rejected seven-day proposal or announce an accepted agreement, deployed force or reopened strait.

The November 17, 2025 adoption of resolution 2803 established the Gaza framework with Russia and China abstaining. In his June 24 recollection, Lavrov says the draft focused on Gaza without the West Bank or unified Palestinian statehood, describes implementation as blocked and says Arab and Palestinian requests led Russia and China not to veto. In the September 26 exchange, Lavrov says the draft gave the UN no meaningful role but Arab states and Palestinians again asked them not to veto it. The journalist's non-deployment claim and Lavrov's later qualified account of incomplete Palestinian control describe unfulfilled or incomplete arrangements, not demonstrated implementation. The criticisms and control estimates remain attributed. In an October 7, 2026 retrospective, Bishara says Council recognition of an undefined Board of Peace allowed Trump to define it afterward. He calls this illegal while specifying he is a historian, not a legal scholar. His claim about Trump, Netanyahu and Putin's roles remains attributed; it is not a finding of illegality or an independently verified membership list. The original November 17, 2025 vote and his later public response remain distinct.