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Tehran: UN rights report product of West's political mandate to demonize Iran
Jun 23, 2021 09:31Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations office in Geneva says a new report by the world body on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic is the product of a political mandate devised by certain Western states to mount pressure on the country.
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UN says looks forward to continued cooperation with Iran under Raeisi
Jun 23, 2021 00:59The United Nations says it seeks to maintain cooperation with Iran under its new administration that will be formed by President-elect Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi in the weeks to come.
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Yemeni children slam UN for ‘whitewashing’ Saudi crimes against them
Jun 22, 2021 10:20Yemeni children have strongly denounced the United Nations’ support for the Saudi-led coalition, after it failed to single out Riyadh and its allies for their crimes against kids in the war-torn country in its latest report, saying that the world body has, through its actions, made itself their enemy.
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Palestine denounces UN for whitewashing Israeli crimes against Palestinian children
Jun 21, 2021 03:40The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has criticized the United Nations for leaving Israel off the annual blacklist of parties responsible for grave violations against children, saying ignoring the regime’s crimes would guarantee impunity for the child-killing entity.
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Myanmar crisis: UN resolution seeks halt to arms flow, fails to address Rohingya plight
Jun 20, 2021 04:02Months after Myanmar's military took power and plunged the Asian country into chaos and as the nation is facing an increasing risk of sliding into a civil war, the United Nations General Assembly has finally adopted a resolution, urging its member states to halt the flow of arms into Myanmar, a watered down version of an initial draft which called for a global arms embargo.
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Yemen’s Ansarullah slams UN accusations of violating children's rights as ‘disgraceful’
Jun 20, 2021 03:46Yemen’s Ansarullah has slammed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's decision to add the resistance movement to its annual blacklist of parties violating children's rights, describing the measure as ‘disgraceful’.
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UN chief Antonio Guterres sworn in for second term, vows to learn from pandemic
Jun 19, 2021 00:41UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was sworn in Friday for a second term as head of the world body, promising to draw on the lessons of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
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North Korea: World should not tolerate Zionist entity’s reckless terrorism
Jun 09, 2021 06:51North Korea has denounced the latest Zionist entity’s military aggression on the besieged Gaza strip, stating that Tel Aviv is massacring children and that the international community should not tolerate Israel's reckless sponsorship of terrorism.
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Some 350,000 people in famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray: UN document
Jun 10, 2021 06:48An analysis by a high-level UN-led committee has estimated that some 350,000 people are in famine conditions in Ethiopia's restive region of Tigray, as a result of a months-long armed conflict that triggered a refugee crisis and a humanitarian disaster there.
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Zarif defends Iran’s voting rights as Guterres set to get reelected as UN chief
Jun 09, 2021 09:55Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres earlier this month, criticizing the United Nations’ decision to deprive Iran of its voting rights.