United Nations

HOPE initiative aimed at reducing regional tensions: Senior diplomat

Dec 05, 2019 14:56

Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says Tehran’s proposed plan for ensuring security in the Persian Gulf aims to reduce tensions in the strategic region.
EU3’s UN letter on Iran missiles aims to hide their ‘miserable incompetence’: Zarif

Dec 05, 2019 10:54

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a letter written to the UN chief by three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is aimed at hiding their “miserable incompetence” in fulfilling their commitments under the accord.
North Korea warns against UN human rights meeting

Dec 05, 2019 10:51

North Korea has warned the United States against holding any United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the country’s human rights situation.
War against nature must stop: UN chief

Dec 01, 2019 14:05

The devastating impact of global warming that threatens humanity is a pushback from nature under assault, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Sunday ahead of a key climate conference.
UN refugee chief criticises Europe's lack of support for unaccompanied children

Nov 29, 2019 06:53

The United Nations senior refugee official says he is 'worried about Europe' if it 'does not feel that it has to share responsibility on children that have no homes, no families and no future'.
Four Ebola responders killed in troubled eastern DR Congo

Nov 28, 2019 15:44

Four Ebola workers in eastern DR Congo were killed and five injured, adding to the toll of people who have died fighting the nearly 16-month-old epidemic, the UN said Thursday.
UN, Iraq work to prosecute Daesh for genocide

Nov 27, 2019 13:40

Members of the United Nations Security Council sat in silence listening to the harrowing account of Kachi Amo Saloh, as he explained how his entire family was killed before his eyes by Daesh terrorists in Iraq five years ago.
North Korea rejects UN rights resolution

Nov 17, 2019 10:21

North Korea has dismissed a United Nations (UN) resolution on the country’s human rights record as a scheme orchestrated by the United States to undermine Pyongyang.
BRICS members call for reform in UN, IMF, and WTO amid rising protectionism in the West

Nov 16, 2019 06:22

Members of the international group of emerging nations, BRICS, have called for comprehensive reforms in the United Nations as well as global trade and monitory bodies, in the face of rising protectionism and unilateralism.
UN: Daesh militants’ home states must take them back

Nov 12, 2019 14:29

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the home countries of Daesh terrorists captured in Iraq and Syria must take back their terrorist nationals.