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Iran, Russia, China denounce US sanctions targeting war-ravaged Syrian economy
Jun 17, 2020 06:24Iran, Russia and China have censured the US for imposing new illegal economic sanctions on Syria, which Washington says are designed to put more pressure on the war-ravage country’s economy and prevent Damascus from achieving victory in the fight against foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists.
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Yemen slams removal of Saudi-led coalition from UN blacklist of child-killers as ‘ineffaceable crime’
Jun 16, 2020 07:48A member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council has sharply censured the United Nations over its decision to remove the Saudi-led coalition from a blacklist for killing and injuring children in the conflict-plagued Arab country, saying the crime that cannot be effaced from its record.
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President warns of Iran’s reaction to arms embargo extension
Jun 15, 2020 01:51President Hassan Rouhani described the lifting of a UN arms embargo on Iran as a significant achievement of the 2015 nuclear deal, warning that any US push to extend the embargo will draw Tehran’s reaction.
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Abbas demands higher-level Security Council meeting on Israel’s annexation plans in West Bank
Jun 14, 2020 01:39Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for the forthcoming United Nations Security Council meeting to be held at a higher level, with foreign ministers in attendance instead of representatives, when it convenes later this month to discuss Israel’s controversial plan to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank.
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US breaches JCPOA, UNSC resolution, has no right to vilify Iran: Zarif
Jun 11, 2020 14:53Iranian foreign minister says the United States has no right to “abuse” the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to vilify Iran, because Washington has already breached the nuclear deal that Tehran clinched with world powers, including the US, and the United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed the deal.
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US has no right to call for extension of Iran arms embargo: Envoy
Jun 07, 2020 04:22Iran’s UN ambassador says the US' call for an extension of the UN Security Council's arms embargo on Tehran lacks legal standing in international law.
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Some acts of violence in DR Congo may amount to war crimes: UN
Jun 05, 2020 13:23The United Nations (UN) has warned that some acts of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may amount to “war crimes.”
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'Endemic racial discrimination' exposed in US: UN rights chief
Jun 03, 2020 11:18The coronavirus pandemic's disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities, and protests triggered by George Floyd's death, have laid bare "endemic inequalities" in the United States, the UN rights chief said Tuesday, urging action.
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Factbox: UN aid programs in Yemen at risk of going broke
Jun 03, 2020 02:47The United Nations said ahead of a pledging conference for Yemen on Tuesday that 30 of 41 major aid programs in the war-torn country would close in the next few weeks without funding.
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US sanctions amid pandemic reach brink of crime against humanity: Iran
Jun 03, 2020 00:48Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations says Washington has crossed the red lines of economic and medical terrorism by continuing to impose sanctions on various countries amid the coronavirus pandemic, and reached the brink of "crime against humanity."