The United Nations Security Council needs information on a Russian missile that fell unexploded in Georgia last week, triggering new verbal attacks between the two countries, the council president said Thursday, according to dpa. Georgia has requested the 15-nation council to discuss the incident, but it has not been able to do so because of the lack of information, Congolese Ambassador Basile Ikouebe said following a closed-door session of the body. He said the council cannot meet until it receives more information. "At this point, the Security Council felt that it lacks adequate information and also because of the investigation under way in Georgia," Ikoube said. "We are still waiting to hear from the investigation." "There is little we can do and we are still consulting with both parties," he said. Georgia branded the landing of the Russian missile on its territory an "act of aggression" and called for an urgent meeting of the Security Council in New York. The request was made Wednesday by Georgia's UN deputy ambassador, Irakli Chikovani. "The council has to be resolute in condemning an attack on the territory of a sovereign country," Chikovani said. Chikovani said the missile, which was dropped from a Russian aircraft on Monday and landed unexploded in a field 65 kilometres west of Tbilisi, constituted a violation of the UN Charter protecting UN members' territories, and as such was an "act of aggression." He called for a UN investigation and for Russia to provide all information needed.
