The UN Security Council will hold an open-door meeting on Friday morning to discuss the situation in Syria, the Russian mission in New York said, Sputnik International reports.
"An open-door UNSC session on the topic ‘Threats to international peace and security: the situation in the Middle East’ will be held on Russia’s initiative at 10 a.m. [14:00GMT] on April 13," it said.
Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia told reporters Russia had called on UNSC member states to convene Friday in the presence of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.