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Syria urges UN Security Council to swiftly end US aggression after recent strike on resistance forces
Feb 28, 2021 04:54Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has urged the United Nations Security Council to assume its responsibility and put an immediate end to US acts of aggression against the Arab country.
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UN calls on Israel to immediately stop demolishing Palestinian homes, buildings in West Bank
Feb 26, 2021 03:45The United Nations has called on the Israeli regime to immediately halt its razing of Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank, saying such actions are contrary to international law and undermine humanitarian efforts across the Occupied Territories.
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UN aid chief calls on Persian Gulf states to prevent 'man-made' famine in Yemen
Feb 26, 2021 03:03The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, has urged Persian Gulf Arab states to donate more money to avert a large-scale “man-made” famine in Yemen.
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UN aid chief calls on Persian Gulf states to prevent 'man-made' famine in Yemen
Feb 26, 2021 03:03The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, has urged Persian Gulf Arab states to donate more money to avert a large-scale “man-made” famine in Yemen.
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US must secure return to JCPOA by lifting bans, no need for talks: Iran envoy to UN
Feb 25, 2021 06:21The Iranian envoy to the UN says there is no need for negotiations over America’s potential return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and that Washington must secure a return to the accord by lifting its sanctions within the next three months, a timeframe agreed between Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog over nuclear inspections beyond the February 21 deadline set by Iran.
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Iran dismisses UN rapporteur’s claims on Ukrainian plane crash
Feb 24, 2021 12:36Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed the “inauthentic, unprofessional and falsified” claims in a letter that UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard has written about a Ukrainian plane that crashed near Tehran in January 2020.
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Ma’rib battle: Yemeni army close to retaking city from Saudi-led forces
Feb 23, 2021 08:12Victory appears to be on the horizon in the heated battle for Yemen’s strategic central province of Ma’rib as army troops, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have reportedly taken control of most areas there and dislodged Saudi-led coalition forces and Riyadh-backed militants from those regions.
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UN chief calls for immediate halt to ‘repression’ in Myanmar
Feb 22, 2021 14:21UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced ‘brutal force’ used by military rulers to curb anti-coup protests in Myanmar.
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UN chief slams Myanmar’s military junta for deadly crackdown
Feb 21, 2021 05:23The United Nations has censured Myanmar’s military junta for deadly crackdown on anti-coup protesters in the country.
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Envoy to UN: Iran has to verify any US step to undo Trump's wrongs
Feb 20, 2021 11:00A top Iranian diplomat says Tehran would have to verify any step regarding the removal of US sanctions on the Islamic Republic.