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UN warns aid flights could collapse in July
Jun 19, 2020 09:29The United Nations warned Friday that its humanitarian logistics flights could be largely grounded in July due to a lack of funds -- severely compromising global aid operations.
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Iran says ready to work with new members of UNSC
Jun 19, 2020 02:56Iran’s Foreign Ministry welcomed the election of India, Ireland, Mexico, and Norway as the new non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
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Over one percent of humanity displaced due to war, persecution: UN
Jun 18, 2020 09:57More than one percent of the world's population - a record 80 million people - have now been forced to flee their homes due to violence and persecution, the UN said Thursday.
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Tehran renews warning to UN nuclear watchdog as EU, US launch anti-Iran push
Jun 18, 2020 08:04Iran has warned the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against failing to “exercise prudence” as its Board of Governors is expected to discuss a European-drafted resolution pushing for intrusive inspections of Iranian nuclear sites.
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Iran backs emergency UN human rights meeting on George Floyd’s murder
Jun 18, 2020 02:47The Foreign Ministry voices support for a two-day emergency meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva addressing the brutal murder of an African-American citizen by a Minneapolis police officer last month and the broader issue of racism in the United States that has been fueling such atrocities.
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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.