UN walkout over Libya's Nazi remark

Britain, the United States, France and other members of the UN Security Council have walked out of a closed meeting after Libya compared the situation in Gaza to Nazi concentration camps in the Second World War, council diplomats said.

The walkout was a rare protest by diplomats on the UN's most powerful body against one of their own members. Libya is the only Arab representative on the council.

Council members were meeting privately to discuss the possibility of issuing a press statement following a briefing on the situation in the Middle East.

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