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UN envoy says Myanmar army still committing ‘crimes against humanity’
Apr 30, 2020 01:56The UN’s special rapporteur on Myanmar’s human rights situation has accused the country’s military of targeting “civilian population” in two states to an extent that could amount to “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”.
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Any measure to extend Iran’s arms embargo in breach of Resolution 2231: Takht Ravanchi
Apr 29, 2020 13:03The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations has called US efforts to extend Iran’s arms embargo in contravention of Security Council Resolution 2231, which has endorsed the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal, saying the claim that the United States is still a party to the agreement allowing it to invoke a sanctions snapback under certain pretexts is nothing but “an unprecedented” joke.
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Zarif, Lavrov scorn Pompeo’s plan for nuclear deal
Apr 29, 2020 02:16Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov dismissed as “delusional” a plan that the US state secretary has proposed to keep Washington a participant state in the JCPOA in order to extend the UN sanctions against Tehran.
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Libyan strongman dismisses UN unity pact, vows to form own govt.
Apr 28, 2020 09:12Libya’s renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar has dismissed a 2015 United Nations-brokered unity accord for the war-ravaged country as “a thing of the past,” vowing to establish a new government under his rule.
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Iran’s Zarif lashes out at Pompeo for saying US still ‘participant’ in JCPOA
Apr 27, 2020 08:52Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took a swipe at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he claimed that Washington had not quit the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers and remained a “participant state”.
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Russia decries ‘hypocritical’ US claims against IRGC satellite
Apr 27, 2020 00:43Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations has slammed Washington’s “hypocrisy” for condemning Iran’s recent launch of an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps satellite citing UN Security Council resolution 2231.
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Pompeo to claim US didn’t quit Iran nuclear deal to make UN impose arms embargo
Apr 27, 2020 00:34US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reportedly going to claim that Washington has not quit the Iran nuclear deal and technically remains a “participant state,” in order to use a mechanism embedded within the accord to make the UN impose arms embargo on Tehran.
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Iran's FM, UN Chief urge humanitarian aid for Yemen amid COVID-19 pandemic
Apr 26, 2020 10:25Iran's top diplomat and the UN chief have urged the necessity of ensuring security of Yemeni borders and ports in order to facilitate dispatch of humanitarian aid to the war-stricken Yemeni people amid the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Syria envoy denounces UN failure to enforce resolutions on Israeli occupation
Apr 24, 2020 03:16Syria’s UN ambassador says the Security Council has failed the Arab world by not enforcing its resolutions on the Israeli occupation due to pressure from certain permanent members of the council.
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China dismisses US allegations on COVID-19 outbreak
Apr 24, 2020 00:11China has once again dismissed as disinformation allegations by the United States that Beijing covered up the COVID-19 outbreak.