The UN Security Council will hold an open debate on the situation in the Middle East on April 18, Malta’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vanessa Frazier, whose country is presiding over the UN's top security body in April, told reporters, Paralel.Az reports.

"We will also have two high level meetings: the quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, which will be chaired by our foreign minister, on April 18, with the [UN] secretary general as brief," she said.

Frazier said in a response to a TASS question that Malta expected 70 to 80 speakers to take part in the open debate. She added that a large number of countries, namely Arab nations, would be represented at the ministerial level.