Topic: United Nations Security Council
Iran has written to the 15 members of the UN Security Council insisting that new sanctions slapped on the Islamic republic will not affect its nuclear programme, the state news agency said on Thursday. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in the letters ...
UN approves new sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear programThe U.N. Security Council has approved new sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear program that target the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard, ballistic missiles, and nuclear-related investments. The resolution imposing a fourth ...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called the proposed new U.N. sanctions against Iran's suspect nuclear program the toughest ever adopted, a day before the U.N. Security Council was expected to vote on the measure. Clinton told reporters in ...
Iran slammed "atomic criminal" the United States on Saturday and called for its suspension from the UN nuclear body, urging changes at the UN Security Council and in the Non-proliferation Treaty. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in an opening message to ...
Iran said on Sunday it will host a nuclear disarmament conference this month to be attended by China, which has been resisting new sanctions against Tehran over its atomic ambitions. "This is an international conference and Iran, which advocates nuclear disarmament, is ...
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday there was "no other choice" but to impose fresh sanctions on Iran as its nuclear programme is suspect. "The defiant attitude adopted by the Iranian government now leaves us no other choice: we have to ...
The United States and the European Union said Wednesday that there must be more sanctions against Iran's nuclear programme if diplomacy fails to shift Tehran.Iran broke its obligations towards the International Atomic Energy Agency by boosting its uranium enrichment without IAEA inspectors ...
The new chief of the UN atomic watchdog, Yukiya Amano, accused Iran Monday of not cooperating sufficiently with an investigation into its contested nuclear activities.In an opening address to an International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting, Amano also said a ...
US envoy says Obama's promise of a new era of global engagement is workingFrom tough new sanctions against North Korea to a sweeping strategy aimed at eliminating nuclear weapons, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says President Barack Obama's promise to ...
The UN Security Council vowed at an unprecedented summit hosted by US President Barack Obama to work to stop the spread of atomic weapons and rid the planet of all nuclear arms.The 15-member body unanimously adopted a resolution committing UN member states ...
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