UN condemns the attack on US consulate in Libya

Top UN officials on Wednesday strongly condemned the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi that killed the US Ambassador to Libya and three other staff members, saying there is no justification for such kind of violence. The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council in a pre-scheduled briefing on Libya that the UN “rejects defamation of religion in all forms, but there is no justification for violence such as occurred in Benghazi”. US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two other staff members at the American consulate were killed when a mob carrying guns and rockets, angry over a film deemed offensive to Islam, stormed the consulate.