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Russia Rejects UN Security Council Report on Iran
TEHRAN,May 15 (FNA)- Russia threatened Friday to block a UN Security Council report on Iran sanctions, calling the work "loose and sloppy."
Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin said his mission did not agree with the report and would be raising objections with the 15-nation Security Council.
"We believe that it is a loose and sloppy piece of work and we believe that there are some recommendations which our experts do not agree with at all," Churkin told reporters.
He said "problems" with the panel of experts report would be raised on the Iran sanctions committee, which diplomats said will not meet until early June.
"These are highly technical matters and we have about two or three pages of concerns and disagreement on proposals and conclusions that are made. So this is something that we intend to raise with our colleagues," Churkin said.
The report said four rounds of UN sanctions are slowing Iran's nuclear program but the Islamic Republic has breached an arms embargo by shipping weapons to Syria.
Churkin would not give details on the Russian objections. But it can block the report as the study can only be published if all nations agree.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Iran insists that it should continue enriching uranium because it needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building in the southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr.
Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin said his mission did not agree with the report and would be raising objections with the 15-nation Security Council.
"We believe that it is a loose and sloppy piece of work and we believe that there are some recommendations which our experts do not agree with at all," Churkin told reporters.
He said "problems" with the panel of experts report would be raised on the Iran sanctions committee, which diplomats said will not meet until early June.
"These are highly technical matters and we have about two or three pages of concerns and disagreement on proposals and conclusions that are made. So this is something that we intend to raise with our colleagues," Churkin said.
The report said four rounds of UN sanctions are slowing Iran's nuclear program but the Islamic Republic has breached an arms embargo by shipping weapons to Syria.
Churkin would not give details on the Russian objections. But it can block the report as the study can only be published if all nations agree.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Iran insists that it should continue enriching uranium because it needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building in the southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr.
