Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
March 4, 2008
Russia has supported the draft resolution put to the vote. We note with satisfaction that the serious work of the six countries and due consideration for the opinions and suggestions of a number of nonpermanent Security Council members had brought the Council to a text that is balanced and meets the tasks at hand.
March 4, 2008
Japan appreciates the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 1803 on March 3rd (Mon) (New York time, Japan time: March 4th (Tue)) by, which contains additional measures concerning Iran's nuclear issue.
March 4, 2008
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March 4, 2008
The UN Security Council on March 3 approved resolution 1803 on the Iranian nuclear program. Russia supported it.
The resolution was adopted "in a package" with the Statement of the foreign ministers of the six countries (Russia, China, United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France), which was made simultaneously with its approval.
U.K. Ambassador to the U.N. Sir John Sawers Interview by Al-Jazeera on New Iran Sanctions (Excerpts)
March 4, 2008
Layla al-Shayib:
Mr Sawers, you announced today that the [five permanent] Security Council members, plus Germany, wish to meet with the Iranian official in charge of the country's nuclear programme; should this meeting not have been held before the Security Council approved this new batch of sanctions against Iran?
Sawers:, speaking in English...
March 3, 2008
Adopted by the Security Council at its 5848th meeting, on 3 March 2008.
March 3, 2008
Statements before the Vote
March 3, 2008
The work on a resolution that continued for nearly half a year, since early September, is over.
March 3, 2008
The international community is once again witnessing that the credibility of the Security Council, whose primary responsibility is to maintain international peace and security, is readily downgraded to a mere tool of the national foreign policy of just a few countries. The Council has been once more pushed to take unlawful action against a proud...
March 3, 2008
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Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran