The United States failed with a push for an indefinite extension of an arms embargo against Iran in the UN security Council. The highest UN body rejected on Friday evening (local time), a corresponding draft resolution of the Americans. With the United States only the Dominican Republic voted for the Initiative, two States voted against it, in addition, there were eleven abstentions, including Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
This design was the resolution far short of the nine votes that would have been for the adoption of necessary.The UN security Council is heading for a crisis. America's foreign Minister Mike Pompeo was outraged about the vote, and announced a measure that could undermine the nuclear Pact with Iran by 2015 completely. The agreement gives Tehran far-reaching Sanctions easing in return for a renunciation of nuclear weapons.
The proponents of an embargo extension against Tehran – Israel and the six Arab Gulf Nations – "know that Iran is still spread greater Chaos and destruction, when the Embargo expires, but the security Council chose to ignore you," criticized Pompeo. America would continue to work to ensure that Iran had no room for the buying and selling of weapons, the Europe, the Middle East and the Rest of the world is threatened.
On the 18. October is scheduled to end the arms embargo against Iran. It is enshrined in a Resolution of the security Council made behind the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the six major powers and thus the force of law has been awarded. Although the United States withdrew under President Donald Trump 2018 to the historic Pact. But made it clear the government several times that she wanted to leave the arms embargo does not leak.
Moscow and Beijing are strongly opposed to the American proposal
Pompeo hinted that his country will activate the "Snapback"mechanism in the atomic energy Treaty, all UN sanctions would be put against Iran is back in force. On Thursday, the United States brought a message in circulation in the lawyers of the Ministry of foreign Affairs to explain why Washington was part of the Resolution of the security Council in 2015, in favour of the nuclear deal. Thus, the United States would also have the right to put the "Snapback"mechanism, in response, wrote to the lawyers of the State Department.
The five other powers – Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany – continue to hold to the nuclear Pact. Diplomats from some of these countries expressed concern that an extension of the arms embargo, the Iranian leadership to withdraw from the agreement, Vera, and their quest could be fuel for nuclear weapons.
Date Of Update: 15 August 2020, 06:19
