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Yemen stresses right to self-defense as Saudi Arabia resorts to UN over Aramco raid
Nov 25, 2020 05:37Yemen says its armed forces reserve the legitimate right to respond to any act of aggression by the Saudi-led military coalition, after Riyadh complained to the UN Security Council over a Yemeni missile attack on an Aramco petroleum products distribution plant in the kingdom’s port city of Jeddah.
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Iran urges UN’s impartiality on Syria
Nov 23, 2020 10:02An Iranian adviser warned against underhand attempts to remove notorious terrorist groups of Syria from the United Nations’ blacklist, calling on the UN to remain even-handed and avoid double standards in the settlement of the Syrian crisis.
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Iranian FM, UN envoy for Syria meet in Tehran
Nov 22, 2020 10:54Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen held a meeting in Tehran for talks on collective efforts to settle the Syrian crisis.
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WHO envoy fears third COVID wave, calls Europe response 'incomplete'
Nov 22, 2020 07:30A World Health Organization (WHO) special COVID-19 envoy has predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections.
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Refugee settlement plunging in 2020: UN
Nov 19, 2020 14:30The United Nations warned Thursday that 2020 could witness the fewest resettled refugees in almost two decades, in part due to the global pandemic.
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Iran dismisses Canadian-drafted resolution on its human rights situation
Nov 19, 2020 06:52Iran has condemned a UN resolution, drafted and proposed by Canada, as a rehash of “groundless” claims about the Islamic Republic’s human rights situation, saying it instead proves the “hypocrisy” of the “notorious” group of countries that voted for it.
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EU’s top diplomat says Iran needs to see JCPOA economic benefits in return for limiting nuclear work
Nov 19, 2020 03:03The European Union foreign policy chief, Joseph Borrell, says Iran should reap the economic benefits of the 2015 nuclear deal in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear work.
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Iran: UN human rights report based on terrorists’ allegations, ignores US violations
Nov 18, 2020 09:03The head of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights has dismissed the United Nations’ latest report on the human rights situation in Iran, saying it contains substantive flaws since it is politically-motivated and based on unsubstantiated allegations of terrorists tied to governments hostile to the Iranian nation.
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UN Security Council should be reformed to serve everyone’s interests: Iran envoy
Nov 17, 2020 14:02Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi says the UN Security Council should be reformed and its measures must have legal basis in order to serve the interests of all countries.
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WHO chief says world has ‘long way to go’ but all must benefit from COVID-19 vaccine
Nov 13, 2020 16:31The head of the World Health Organization hailed the rapid progress towards a COVID-19 vaccine but insisted Friday that every country had to reap the benefits.