UN slams Gaddafi’s jihad call on Swiss

The United Nations and European Union rallied behind Switzerland yesterday after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s call for jihad against the country, with a top UN official branding the move unacceptable.

Asked by journalists about one state calling for holy war on another, UN director-general Sergei Ordzhonikidze said: “I believe that such declarations on the part of the head of state are inadmissible in international relations.

“I’m not even talking about actions,” he added.