MNA |Stephen Lendman: Headquartered in New York with offices in Geneva, Vienna, The Hague, and Nairobi, the UN is supposed to be an intergovernmental organization that champions peace, opposes war, and represents the rights, interests, and welfare of all nations and people everywhere equitably. Established in 1945 to prevent the scourge of ...

MNA Irans ambassador to the United Nations says there is no military solution to the crisis in Yemen, adding that Iran believes the crisis only will be resolved through political dialogue. Gholamali Khoshroo made the remarks on the sidelines of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday to decide to extend the arms embargo on Yemen, which ended in ...

The latest United Nations survey on international migrant trends reports that Iran is one of the worlds four countries with the highest number of refugees. According to the Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 Revision, refugees are mainly in Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran, Jordan and come mainly from three countries Syria, Afghanistan and ...

Iran plans to put forward an updated version of a resolution based on President Hassan Rouhanis proposal for the World Against Violence and Extremism(WAVE) to the United Nations General Assembly for ratification. Iranian Ambassador to the UN Gholam Ali Khoshrou made the announcement on Thursday at a meeting of the General Assembly in New York. The ...

The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations (UN) says the Tel Aviv regime is harvesting the organs of Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied territories. Riyad Mansour said in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday that the bodies of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are returned with missing ...

Speaker of the Syrian People's AssemblyMohammad Jihad al-Laham has praised Irans support for the Syrian nation and government in the face of militancy in the country. Al-Laham made the remarks in a Tuesday meeting with Irans Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani on the sidelines of theFourth World Conference of Parliament Speakers convened by ...

The United Nations has warned of the increasing number of children killed in the Yemeni conflict, saying those who survive will form a lost generation as a result of the traumatic experiences of the crisis. Children are paying an unacceptable price, and the ever mounting death toll tragically underscores the need for urgent action to protect them ...

The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations has blasted the UN Security Council for failing to show the necessary political will to defend the Palestinian peoples rights. The Security Council, due to a lack of political will, is not capable of fulfilling its duties within the framework of the organizations Charter to defend the rights of the Palestinian ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 27 (MNA) The United Nations in the Islamic Republic of Iran is pleased to announce the first Award for the distinguished, outstanding, professional and objective journalistic coverage of the UNs work in Iran. This contest is dedicated to commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations. Submission Guidelines From ...

The latest obstacle to the U.S. and five other nations finalizing a nucleardealwith Iran by this month's deadline is an unexpected new demand from Tehran for quick relief fromUnited Nationssanctions. For most of the last nine months of negotiations, Iran and the diplomatic bloc of six world powers have focused on first easing unilateral economic sanctions ...

[caption id="attachment_124654" align="alignright" width="133"] Afghan refugee children residing in Shahid Beheshti settlement, Fars Province. Almost 46% of refugees in this settlement are children. Photo credit: WFP/Yalda Ashtari[/caption] Iran is a founder member of the United Nations (UN) and joined in 1945. Only 51 of the current 193 countries ...

[caption id="attachment_113490" align="alignright" width="154"] Palestinian men look on as a bomb from an Israeli air strike hits a house in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Photo by AFP[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United Nations said a program to reconstruct the Gaza Strip after this summer's 50-day war with Israel has begun. Middle East peace ...

[caption id="attachment_112249" align="alignright" width="243"] Photographer: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty ImagesPalestinians flee their destroyed neighbourhood in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun, on August 18, 2014.[/caption] The United Nations (UN) is set to send hundreds of international supervisors to the Gaza Strip in order to monitor the ...