TEHRAN, December 22 - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Friday for the United States to step back from its decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's ‘capital’ after the United Nations voted against the move despite what he called "ugly and unforgivable" U.S. threats.
TEHRAN, December 22 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif welcomed UN vote against US move on recognizing Jerusalem al-Quds as ‘capital’ of Israel.
TEHRAN, December 21 - The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution rejecting U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's ‘capital’, as the U.N. envoy threatened the vote will determine how the U.S. looks "at countries who disrespect us at the U.N."
TEHRAN, December 19 - The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman condemned the US government's veto in its proposed Egyptian resolution on Jerusalem, calling it an act contrary to international peace and security and trampling the rights of the Palestinian people.
TEHRAN, December 18 - The Palestinian leadership may turn to the U.N. General Assembly if Washington vetoes a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to reaffirm Jerusalem al-Quds’s status as unresolved, after US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize it as Israel’s ‘capital’.
TEHRAN, November 17 - A United Nations General Assembly committee approved a draft resolution that urges Myanmar to halt military operations in the country’s Rakhine state that have “led to the systematic violation and abuse of human rights” of Rohingya Muslims.
TEHRAN, November 17 -Russia has used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block a US-drafted resolution that sought to renew a "flawed" international inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
TEHRAN, November 7 - An Iranian deputy foreign minister expressed the hope that the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2231, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), would outlast other resolution s.
TEHRAN, October 29 -A resolution proposed by Iran aimed at the disarmament of nuclear states has been approved by the United Nations despite obstruction of the US and its allies.
Russia says it will veto a UN Security Council resolution drafted by the US, Britain and France to impose sanctions on Syria over allegations of chemical weapons use.
The Israeli ambassador to the United States says the regime has “evidence” that Washington was “actually behind” what led up to a UN resolution against Tel Aviv, asserting that such information will only be given to President-elect Donald Trump.
A high-ranking Iranian security official says a recent United Nations Security Council resolution on the Syrian city of Aleppo is an attempt to pave the ground for the deployment of foreign intelligence officers to the city under the cover of UN observers.
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea vowed Saturday to boost its nuclear capability and take all necessary steps to defend itself to counter a United Nations resolution calling for the referral of its leaders to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity.