Topic: United Nations
The United States said Wednesday that a new UN report on Iran's nuclear program underscored Tehran's continued failure to comply with its international obligations.In a restricted new report, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Tuesday the Islamic republic has continued to ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Western states are expected to push for Syria to be referred to the U.N. Security Council after U.N. inspectors gave independent support to U.S. allegations that Damascus was building a covert nuclear reactor, diplomats say.In a report to member ...
International sanctions are slowing Iran's nuclear program but the Islamic Republic has repeatedly sought to breach an arms embargo by shipping weapons to Syria, UN investigators said in a report.Six of the nine violations of a UN ban on conventional arms shipments ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States warned Syria Wednesday it "can't be allowed" to stonewall a U.N. watchdog investigation into a desert site where covert atomic activity may have taken place before it was destroyed by Israel in 2007.For more than two ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has received new information regarding allegations of possible military aspects to Iran's disputed nuclear program, the agency said in a report.The confidential report, obtained by Reuters on Friday, listed several areas of concerns the International ...
A top US lawmaker pressed President Barack Obama on Thursday to impose new sanctions on Syria after photographs emerged suggesting its secret nuclear program was broader than previously revealed.House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said she was "gravely concerned" after a ...
Satellite photos published by a Washington think tank on Wednesday appear to show Syrian efforts to conceal a second suspected nuclear site allegedly linked to a reactor bombed by Israel in 2007.The photos acquired by the Institute for Science and International Security ...
Syria has snubbed a request by UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano for prompt access to a suspect nuclear site and a number of other locations, diplomats said on Tuesday.After more than two years of deadlock on the issue, Syria could therefore ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - China does not back efforts by Washington and Seoul to punish North Korea at the United Nations for its uranium enrichment programme and wants six-party talks to deal with the issue, a top South Korean envoy said on Saturday.International ...
Key powers seeking to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions will consider strengthening non-UN measures against Iran to include financial as well as oil and gas sanctions, a Western diplomat said on Friday.During talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul last month, world powers ...
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