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Iran, China, Russia Seek Support at UN to Confront US Unilateral Sanctions: Report

China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and others are seeking support for a coalition to defend the United Nations Charter by pushing back against the use or threat of force and unilateral sanctions, Reuters news agency reported on Thursday. Citing a concept note, Reuters reported that the “Group of Friends in ...

March 12, 2021

Middle East

Zarif: US Hinders Transfer of Iran Fee Debt to UN

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran allotted money to pay for its membership fee of the United Nations, but the United States got in the way of paying the membership debt. In an interview with IRNA news agency, FM Zarif said on Friday that Iran wanted to pay ...

January 22, 2021

Middle East

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh

Iran Says Paying UN Membership Fee Despite US Sanctions

Iran said it has been regularly paying its UN membership contributions in the past years in spite of the unilateral sanctions imposed by the US which have made financial transactions difficult for Tehran. “Despite restrictions caused by the United States’ unilateral sanctions, the Islamic Republic of Iran has, in recent ...

January 18, 2021

World

Security Council Considers Situation in LibyaReport of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (S/2020/41)UNSMIL - Ghassan Salam, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)

UN Security Council Calls for Exit of Mercenaries from Libya

The UN Security Council on Tuesday called for all mercenaries and foreign fighters to leave Libya, in a unanimous statement that included Russia, which is accused of enabling a Russian contractor to send paramilitaries. Libya has been wracked by violence and chaos since the toppling and killing of dictator Moamer ...

December 16, 2020

Middle East

Iran’s envoy to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi

Iran Slams West over Politicization of Chemical Weapons

Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations strongly condemned any use of chemical weapon, urging the western countries to abandon politicization in dealing with these types of weapons. Addressing a Friday session of the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Syria and the chemical weapons, Majid ...

December 12, 2020

Middle East

Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Kazem Gharibabadi

Iranian Envoy Says IAEA Not Entitled to Give Any Analysis

Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Kazem Gharibabadi said on Friday that providing any assessment or analysis is out of the mandate of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Iranian ambassador made the remarks in reaction to a recent interview by the IAEA Director-General Rafael ...

December 11, 2020

Middle East

No Renegotiation of JCPOA, Iran’s Zarif Reiterates

Iran will by no means agree to renegotiate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. Addressing the 6th edition of Mediterranean Dialogues (Rome MED 2020) via videoconference on Thursday, Zarif underlined that Tehran will not hold any new talks on what has already ...

December 4, 2020

World

UN Warns Food Supply Exhausted for Nearly 100,000 Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray

The United Nations (UN) has warned that close to 100,000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s conflict-ridden region of Tigray face severe food shortages. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appealed on Tuesday to Ethiopian authorities for access to the 96,000 refugees sheltering in camps in Tigray. Babar Baloch, spokesman for ...

December 2, 2020

Lebanon

President Aoun, UN’s Kubis Follow up on Implementation of 1701 Resolution

Lebanese President Michel Aoun received UN Special Coordinator in Lebanon Jan Kubis, on Friday at Baabda Presidential Palace. Kubis briefed the President on the deliberations of the UN Security Council on the implementation of Resolution 1701, as part of the regular briefings which the Security Council conducts as a follow-up ...

November 27, 2020

Middle East

Iran Spokesman Highlights US’ “Max. Failure”, Slams Canada Human Right Resolution

Iran Foreign Ministry stressed that US’ policy of maximum pressure ended in failure, as it slammed a draft resolution on human rights put forward by the Canadian government at the United Nations. Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh pointed to the sense of frustration that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is ...

November 19, 2020