AP � The Latest on the U.N. Security Council (all times local):

12:15 p.m.

Russia�s foreign minister is warning that a failure of the Iran nuclear deal, especially as a result of action by the Trump administration, would send �an alarming message� to North Korea and impact all international agreements.

Sergey Lavrov told the Security Council on Thursday in a clear message to President Donald Trump that �we cannot for the benefit of political agendas of certain countries abandon a genuine achievement of international diplomacy.�

Last Friday, Trump kept the Iran agreement alive by extending sanctions waivers. But he warned that the U.S. would pull out in a few months unless �terrible flaws� in the deal are fixed.

Lavrov again pushed a Russian-Chinese �roadmap for an exclusively peaceful settlement� of the North Korea nuclear issue.

He also expressed grave concern at �the growing threat of chemical terrorism in the Middle East, specifically on the territories of Iraq and Syria.�

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11:10 a.m.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the threat from weapons of mass destruction �seems to be gathering force� and is urging expanded diplomatic efforts to tackle the security challenge posed by North Korea�s nuclear ambitions.

The U.N. chief told the Security Council on Thursday that the international community must build on the �small signs of hope� from recent contacts between the two Koreas to pursue diplomacy and denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

Guterres said �global anxieties about nuclear weapons are the highest since the Cold War,� and warned of �unimaginable consequences� from �the growing risk of military confrontation.�

He also expressed concern at the �ebb� in trust on nuclear and other weapons-related issues between the U.S. and Russia, and the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict.