South Korea and eight other members of the UN Security Council(UNSC) have urged Myanmar’s military government to cease what they called “indiscriminate” airstrikes against civilians.

The nine countries made the call in a joint statement issued before the 15-member council’s meeting on Monday while condemning the military government for carrying out such strikes. 

In the statement, South Korea, the U.S., Ecuador, France, Japan, Malta, Slovenia, Switzerland and Britain said that since the Myanmar military conducted a coup three years ago, more than 18 million people have come to be in need of humanitarian aid and two-point-six million have been displaced.

The nine countries then stressed the need to adopt the UNSC’s 2022 resolution on Myanmar that calls for an immediate end to violence and swift release of all “arbitrarily detained” prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi.

In particular, the nine council members called for the provision of humanitarian aid to the Indo-Aryan ethnic group Rohingya as they cited that the community, primarily Muslim, are facing denial of access to medicine and medical care due to tougher restrictions on their freedom of movement.