Days ahead of the Oct. 1 meeting between Iran and the group of six countries negotiating on Iran’s nuclear programme, Tehran has informed the UN nuclear watchdog agency that it has a second uranium enrichment plant.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (photo) says the United Nations Security Council would not support oil sanctions targeting Iran. Lavrov also believes there is "something to use" in a package of proposals Tehran has sent to world powers.
The Security Council has agreed to extend the mandate of French-backed UN troops in the Ivory Coast to support elections on November 29. Elections have been delayed several times since President Laurent Gbagbo's mandate ran out in 2005.
The UN Security Council has condemned North Korea’s recent missile tests as a violation of existing UN resolutions and a threat to regional and international security.
The UN Security Council is set to discuss North Korea's latest missile launches as a North Korean ship suspected of carrying a banned arms cargo was expected to return home.
A UN mission in Georgia has now ended after Russia vetoed a draft sponsored by UN Security Council members to extend the UN's mandate in the country. Russia cited opposition to Georgian sovereignty over the rebel region of Abkhazia.
The UN observer mission to Georgia expires on Monday as the UN Security Council remained split over a draft resolution to extend it. The UN has warned that the mission's withdrawal threatens the stability in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region.
One day after the UN Security Council slapped new sanctions on North Korea for missile firings, the secretive Asian state warned it would start a programme to enrich uranium and convert its plutonium reserves for military use.
The UN Security Council has adopted tougher sanctions and a trade and arms embargo against North Korea in the wake of its nuclear tests in May. China and Russia, both initially reluctant, also supported the punitive measures.
A new draft UN resolution seeks to punish North Korea for a rocket launch in April with new sanctions on overseas funds. The resolution backed down from earlier calls for North Korean cargo to be inspected for violations of trade and arms embargoes.
