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2018/12/19
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
Saudi-led coalition makes mockery of Yemen truce
TEHRAN - After week-long marathon peace talks in Sweden, facilitated by the United Nations, Yemen’s warring parties agreed to an immediate ceasefire in Hodeidah city and the ports of Hodeidah, Ras Issa and Saleef, in a bid to resolve the country’s humanitarian crisis and scale down fighting.
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2018-12-18 21:02
Tehran hosting high-level meeting on disaster information management
TEHRAN — A high-level expert consultation meeting on disaster information management kicked off in Tehran on Tuesday, Mehr news agency reported.
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2018-12-14 19:24
Tehran urges UN to hold U.S. accountable for violating resolution 2231
TEHRAN – The UN Security Council should hold the U.S. accountable for violating the resolution 2231 by leaving the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranian deputy ambassador to the UN said on Wednesday.
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2018-12-11 21:45
International Mountain Day: Mountains are vital for our lives
TEHRAN — Almost one billion people live in mountain areas, and over half the human population depends on mountains for water, food and clean energy. However, according to the United Nations, mountains are under threat from climate change, land degradation, over exploitation and natural disasters, with potentially far-reaching and devastating consequences, both for mountain communities and the rest of the world.
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2018-12-10 22:06
Pakistan harboring terrorists: Haley
TEHRAN - The war of words between U.S. and Pakistani politicians doesn't seem to end. Latest to jump the bandwagon is U.S. envoy to UN Nikki Haley who has repeated allegations against Islamabad.
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2018-12-09 20:45
UN envoy hails Iran’s anti-corruption campaign
The representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Iran has praised the country’s progress in campaign against crimes and corruption.
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2018-12-05 19:52
Anti-Iran consensus fails at UN
TEHRAN – Attempts to bring the United Nations Security Council into a consensus against Iran’s missile tests failed to achieve the desired conclusion sought by the U.S., France and Britain.
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2018-12-05 10:44
Pompeo Questions the Value of International Groups Like UN and EU
BRUSSELS — In a major speech on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to explain one of the abiding conundrums of the Trump administration: How does a nationalist lead on the international stage?
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2018/11/30
By Dr. Altaf Hussain
Understanding essence of Islam key to fostering unity
TEHRAN_ We are fully aware of the dangers and challenges facing the Islamic world today. Evil influences not only threaten its unity, distort its identity, tarnish its tenets but brutally attack the very message of Islam.
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2018-11-28 20:36
Zarif urges intra-Afghan dialogue to reach peace
TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday underlined the need to facilitate the intra-Afghan dialogue, by helping to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table with the government for inclusive and comprehensive talks.
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2018-11-27 20:57
Iranian diplomat elected as deputy chairman of UNIDO
TEHRAN - Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, was elected as deputy chairman of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for one year.
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2018-11-26 21:46
FATF sets Dec 15 deadline for Pakistan
TEHRAN _ Pakistan, which has been blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), will have to comply with 27 actionable plans of the body by December 15 to escape from the blacklist, according to reports.
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2018-11-19 21:24
Tehran backs UN peace efforts in Afghanistan
TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday voiced Iran’s readiness to help the UN efforts to establish peace in Afghanistan, Fars reported.
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2018-11-17 21:53
Khoshroo’s diplomatic mission to UN ends
TEHRAN - Gholamali Khoshroo’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations formally came to an end on Friday as the Iranian parliament has adopted a legislation banning employment of retirees.
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2018-11-11 10:12
‘Time not ripe for Rohingya repatriation’
TEHRAN _ Bangladesh and Myanmar should shelve plans of repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees to Rakhine State as they face a “high risk of persecution”, a top United Nations' human rights investigator has warned.
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2018-11-05 19:52
By Maryam Qarehgozlou
Meeting on regional co-op for building resilience to disasters opens in Tehran
TEHRAN — An Expert Consultation Meeting on Regional Cooperation for Building Resilience to Slow-Onset Disasters, Including Sand and Dust Storms and Information Management for Cross-Border Disaster in Asia and the Pacific opened in Tehran on Monday.
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2018-10-31 20:10
DOE chief demands UN to cooperate on negotiating Hamoun water right
TEHRAN — Over a meeting held in Tehran on Wednesday with the UN resident coordinator and UNDP representative Ugochi Daniels, Issa Kalantari, chief of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), emphasized the need for negotiating with Afghanistan to discuss Hamoun Lake water right.
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2018/10/26
By Mikhail Gorbachev former president of the Soviet Union
A new nuclear arms race has begun
Over 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan and I signed in Washington the United States-Soviet Treaty on the elimination of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles. For the first time in history, two classes of nuclear weapons were to be eliminated and destroyed.
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2018-10-24 09:31
By Hanif Ghaffari
UN and the puzzle of Cyprus
TEHRAN - The "Cyprus file" is still open at the United Nations. UN officials have stated that the perspective of resolving the disputes over this issue remains positive. This is while Greek and Cypriot officials have said that reaching any agreement on this issue requires Turkey's cooperation.
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2018-10-19 12:01
By Hanif Ghaffari
Nikki Haley left the UN
TEHRAN - Nikki Haley has resigned as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and will leave her post in January. Since Trump’s first weeks in office, the White House has been plagued with high-profile departures of people who are fired or resign, often after being stung by scandal or caught up in some controversy: National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, FBI Director James Comey and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, to name a few.
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2018-10-17 15:54
UN human rights mechanisms are based on double standards, Iran says
TEHRAN – The UN mechanisms on human rights are politicized and based on double standards, Iran’s representative to the Third Committee of the UN said on Tuesday.
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2018-10-16 08:16
UN chief decries violence ahead of Afghan polls
TEHRAN - The United Nations chief has denounced violent attacks targeting electoral booths in Afghanistan as the country gears up for parliamentary elections later this week.
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2018-10-15 16:55
UN: Yemen on brink of 'world's worst famine in 100 years’
The United Nations has warned Yemen could be facing the worst famine in 100 years if airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition are not halted, the Guardian reported on Monday.
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2018/10/14
By Michael H Fuchs
Nikki Haley's departure reflects the chaos of U.S.'s foreign policy
Not unlike in an autocracy, U.S. foreign policy is hostage to the erratic whims of the president, directed by Trump tweets and what he sees on Fox News
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2018-10-13 22:09
India elected to UN HR Council
TEHRAN - India was elected to the influential UN Human Rights Council with the highest number of votes by the UN General Assembly on Friday with a vow to combat intolerance.
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2018-10-13 14:55
In parting shot, Nikki Haley shuns human rights groups at UN
During her nearly two-year stint as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley sought to cultivate a reputation as a human rights champion, speaking out forcefully about atrocities from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Myanmar to South Sudan.
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2018/10/10
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
Nikki Hailey calls it quits, Twitter says ‘good riddance’
TEHRAN - The ‘smart and cunning’ U.S. envoy to the UN Nikki Hailey announced on Tuesday that she will be stepping down from her chair at the end of the year, a decision that has generated palpable buzz in the political circles and over social media.
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2018-10-08 23:00
UN urges Taliban not to use IEDs
TEHRAN - The United Nations has called on insurgent groups in Afghanistan to refrain from using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in civilian areas, after it reported a sharp rise in civilian casualties caused by the explosives this year.
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2018-10-06 20:14
By: Syed Zafar Mehdi
‘India-Pakistan relationship is held hostage by many structural impediments’
TEHRAN - India and Pakistan, the two estranged neighbors, made some significant overtures since the formation of new government in Islamabad, which rekindled hopes of peaceniks in both the countries. But the parleys proved short-lived. The battle lines are drawn again as accusations and counter-accusations fly thick and fast. This week, the foreign ministers of the two countries took their war of words to the UN General Assembly.
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2018-10-03 18:07
UN chief urges India to put pressure on Myanmar to resolve Rohingya crisis
TEHRAN - Voicing serious concern over the plight of Rohingya refugees living in the ramshackle camps in Bangladesh under appalling conditions, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has urged India to put pressure on Myanmar and support Bangladesh.
