UN experts urge Saudi Arabia to swiftly release women’s rights activists
Press TV – Saudi Arabia must “immediately and unconditionally” release all women it has arrested and imprisoned on charges relating to their…
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Iran UN envoy urges int’l swift reaction to US threats
IRNA – Iran’s UN envoy has called US withdrawal from the Iran Deal and re-imposition of sanctions against the country a serious…
Iran envoy advises US to give up unilateralism
ّIFP – Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations says the US envoy to the UN thought she could change the…
Nikki Haley resigns from UN post
IRNA – The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley resigned on Tuesday, and the US President Donald Trump accepted…
Al-Jaafari: Presence of foreign forces in Syria illegitimate
IRNA – Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari affirmed on Monday that the presence of foreign forces on Syrian…
Iran wins UN non-communicable diseases prevention award
IRNA – The United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (UNIATF) conferred Iran and some other…
UN Chief condemns Iran terror strike
IRNA – The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in a statement on Saturday denounced the terrorist attack in the Iranian southwestern…
Iran asks UN to condemn Israeli threats, supervise its nuclear program
Reuters – Iran has asked the United Nations to condemn Israeli threats against Tehran and to bring Israel’s nuclear program under its…
Saudi war machine revs up as UN envoy visits Yemen
Press TV – Saudi Arabia has intensified its invasion of Yemen as the United Nations special envoy for the violence-scarred country visits…
UN Chief: Idlib must not be transformed into a ‘Bloodbath’
Sputnik – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters Tuesday at UN headquarters that an all-out assault on Idlib “would unleash a…
Iran playing constructive role in bringing peace to Syria
IRNA – Iran is playing a constructive role in bringing peace and prosperity to Syria, the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic…
VP orders state bodies to pay membership fees to intl. organizations
MNA – First Vice-President Es’hagh Jahangiri has ordered relevant government organizations to pay Iran’s membership fees in international bodies such as the…
Damascus has sovereign right for Idlib operation: Syrian UN envoy
Press TV – Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari says military operations against terrorist factions in the militant-held province of…
Iran: Growing unilateralism threatening world peace
Tasnim – Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo decried the growing resort to unilateralism by “a certain power” as…
Senior officials from Russia, Turkey and Iran to gather in Geneva in new peace efforts for Syria
Xinhua — In a new UN-led effort to move forward the political process to end the Syrian conflict, senior officials from Russia,…
Int’l relations must be ruled by law not power: Iran UN envoy
IRNA — Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo criticized the US administration for threatening…
‘UN was obliged to punish US for sanctions against Iran, but did nothing’
RT – Unilateral US sanctions against Iran resemble an act of war and it was the UN’s obligation to interfere, but it…
US envoy to UN questions Palestinian right of return to Israel-occupied homeland
Press TV – The US ambassador to the United Nations has questioned the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their occupied…
UN offers condolences on tragic deaths of Iranian environmentalists
MNA – UN Environment Executive Director and Under-Secretary of the United Nations Erik Solheim has offered condolences on the deaths of Iranian…
UN invites US, allies for Syria talks in Geneva next month
Press TV – United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited the United States and six other countries to take part…
Boroujerdi: UN failed to do its duty to settle Syrian crisis
MNA – Senior parliamentary official Alaeddin Boroujerdi says the United Nations has failed to do its duty to settle the seven-year long…
UN invites Iran, Russia, Turkey to Syria talks in Geneva next month
Press TV – United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited Iran, Russia and Turkey to talks due to be held…
Iran sanctions are unjust and harmful, says UN expert warning against generalised economic war
United Nations Human Rights Office Of The High Commissioner – Sanctions must be just, and must not lead to the suffering of…
US unilateral sanctions against Iran illegitimate
IRNA – The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Unilateral Coercive Measures called the United States’ reimposition of unilateral sanctions against…
Scholars: UN, Security Council fully responsible for Saudi-led aggression on Yemen
FNA – Yemeni scholars and religious figures strongly denounced a recent deadly airstrike by Saudi warplanes on a bus carrying schoolchildren in…
Israel slams UN chief’s calls to boost protection of Palestinians
Press TV – The Israeli regime has rejected calls by the United Nations chief to boost protection of Palestinians against persisting Israeli…
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan dies at 80
MNA – Ghanaian diplomat, who served as seventh secretary general of United Nations between 1997 and 2006, dies aged 80. Kofi Annan,…
Nuclear deal demonstrates Iran’s commitment to UN charter principles
IFP – Iran’s new envoy and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva says the 2015 nuclear deal proved Tehran…
UN says Saudi attack on Yemeni school bus ‘tragic, unjustifiable’
Press TV – The UN has said that there is no justification for Saudi Arabia’s latest massacre in Yemen which claimed the…
Syria, UN delegation discuss redeployment of peacekeepers to occupied Golan
Press TV – A delegation of UN commanders has visited Damascus for talks with Syrian Defense Minister Ali Abdullah Ayyoub on the…
Iran refutes UN report on Al-Qaida leaders in Syria
IRNA – The spokesman for Iran mission to UN Alireza Miryousefi on Tuesday rejected the United Nations’ report on Al-Qaida in northeastern…
Iranian, Brazilian envoys in Vienna discuss closer cooperation
Tasnim – Iran’s ambassador to Vienna-based international organizations, Kazem Gharibabadi, held separate talks with high-ranking Brazilian envoys about ways to deepen mutual…
UN Chief hails signing Caspian Sea convention
IRNA – The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in a statement on Monday welcomed signing the landmark convention on the Caspian…
Iran, Russia and Turkey keen to avoid battle in Syria’s Idlib: UN
Press TV – A UN official says Iran, Russia and Turkey have assured that they would do their utmost to avoid a battle…
Trump’s sanctions against Iran are a clear breach of international law
The Guardian | Gholamali Khoshroo: For the first time in the history of the UN, the United States – a permanent member of…
Iran official confers with UN special envoy for Syria
IRNA – Senior assistant to Iran’s Foreign Minister for political affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari discussed latest developments in Damascus with the UN…
Lebanon’s Berri shuns UN officials for pro-Israel bias
Press TV – Lebanon’s top legislator has refused to meet with the United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, and the commander of…
1,500 refugees have died in Mediterranean this year, UN agency says
Press TV – The United Nations migration agency says at least 1,500 refugees have lost their lives in the Mediterranean since the…
UN rights chief calls on Israel to release Palestinian children held in administrative detention
Press TV – The United Nations rights chief has called on Israel to release the some 440 Palestinian children it is holding…
UN chief calls on Israel to avoid further inflaming Gaza situation
Press TV – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to avoid further inflaming the situation in the Gaza Strip.…