Security Council adopts Iran resolution with no new sanctions
Monday, 29 September 2008
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 28 (AFP): The UN Security Council Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution again urging Iran to suspend its sensitive nuclear fuel work but offering no new sanctions and merely reaffirming existing ones.
Resolution 1835 calls on Iran "to fully comply and without delay with its obligations (under relevant UN resolutions) and to meet the requirement of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) board of governors."
The resolution also reaffirmed the council's "commitment to an early negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue," and welcomes the "dual-track approach" by Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States, the six powers trying to clip Iran's nuclear ambitions.
US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad immediately welcomed the adoption of the resolution by all 15 council members.
"It shows that the world community is united on this issue, that Iran must cooperate," he said, stressing that the nuclear standoff with Tehran should be resolved "through diplomacy."
"It is unfortunate...that yet again we are witnessing that the Security Council has been unwarrantedly and unnecessarily called to act in a hastily manner on an issue that by no stretch of logic, law or justification falls within the Council's purview, and poses no threat to international peace and security," Iran's UN mission said in a statement.
Indonesian Ambassador Marty Natalegawa, who abstained when the last Iran sanctions resolution was adopted last March, welcomed the fact that the sponsors inserted his amendment reaffirming the council's "commitment to an early negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue."
Resolution 1835 calls on Iran "to fully comply and without delay with its obligations (under relevant UN resolutions) and to meet the requirement of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) board of governors."
The resolution also reaffirmed the council's "commitment to an early negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue," and welcomes the "dual-track approach" by Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States, the six powers trying to clip Iran's nuclear ambitions.
US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad immediately welcomed the adoption of the resolution by all 15 council members.
"It shows that the world community is united on this issue, that Iran must cooperate," he said, stressing that the nuclear standoff with Tehran should be resolved "through diplomacy."
"It is unfortunate...that yet again we are witnessing that the Security Council has been unwarrantedly and unnecessarily called to act in a hastily manner on an issue that by no stretch of logic, law or justification falls within the Council's purview, and poses no threat to international peace and security," Iran's UN mission said in a statement.
Indonesian Ambassador Marty Natalegawa, who abstained when the last Iran sanctions resolution was adopted last March, welcomed the fact that the sponsors inserted his amendment reaffirming the council's "commitment to an early negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue."