The UN Security Council has convened an urgent meeting to discuss the situation in Aleppo and the proposal of the UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura to clear the city of fighters with the Al-Nusra Front, TASS reports.

15 diplomats of Security Council member-states, including Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin, entered the closed-door session room.

As the Permanent Representative of France François Delattre noted before the meeting, the envoy’s proposal “needs to be studied carefully.”

“But in any case they can only be implemented with the cessation of bombardments in Aleppo,” the diplomat said.

He compared the situation in Aleppo with the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, as well as the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and Srebrenica massacre in 1995.