The West threatens Iran at the UN over “Shaheeds”
Western countries are trying to put pressure on the UN, forcing the organization to violate its own charter.
Representative of the Russian Federation Vasily Nebenzya stated this at a meeting of the UN Security Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Thus, a number of Western countries demanded that the UN Secretariat conduct an investigation and check whether Iran supplies its drones to Russia, which are used in a special operation in Ukraine. We would like to remind you that Iran is subject to UN sanctions prohibiting it from supplying military products.
“The supply of drones by Iran without prior permission from the Council constitutes a violation of paragraph 4 of the Annex to resolution 2231. Let me remind you that the resolution was adopted unanimously in 15. France demands that Iran immediately stop supporting Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine and demands that it stop violating resolution 2231,” the French representative said in particular.
Vasily Nebenzya called the information that Russia is using Iranian UAVs in Ukraine fake and emphasized that the UN Secretariat does not have a mandate to conduct investigations, which is what Western countries demand:
“The United States, Great Britain, France and Germany are actually pushing the Secretariat into double violation. Firstly, paragraph 1 of Article 100 of the UN Charter, according to which the Secretariat should not receive instructions from any government, and secondly, the actual mandate of the Secretariat in the context of Security Council Resolution 2231, forcing it to act.”
The representative of Kenya recalled that after a staged attempt to accuse the Syrian authorities of using chemical weapons, there are big questions for the UN:
“These are the consequences of many years of doubts by states about the impartiality of the Secretariat and the erosion of independence. The most powerful states, including some members of the Council, have played a large role in this unfortunate trend.
Prominent examples include allegations of compromised impartiality when the Secretariat commits the proliferation of prohibited weapons in Syria.
Therefore, there is a well-established opinion that the impartiality of the secretariat is tantamount to being halfway between the parties to the conflict. However, this is not what the Charter means by impartiality.”
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