VOA: UN Security Council Approves Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON - The U.N. Security Council has unanimously endorsed the agreement Iran and a group of six world powers struck last week to limit the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
The 15-member Council quickly voted Monday morning. The five permanent, veto-holding Council members are signatories to the agreement, so the resolution was expected to be adopted.
Now that it has been passed, the deal goes into effect after no later than 90 days. The next key milestone comes after the U.N. nuclear watchdog — the International Atomic Energy Agency — issues a report, expected in December, on the resolution of past and present issues with Iran's nuclear program. That is when Iran would see relief from the sanctions that have hurt its economy.
The U.N. vote comes as U.S. lawmakers begin their own review of the agreement.
WNU Editor: President Obama has already expressed his support of this UN vote .... Obama: U.N. resolution shows broad support for Iran deal (Reuters).
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1 comment:
The UN does not do a good job with peace keeping mission or rogue nations. Look at Sudan and Somalia.
So what is UN consensus worth?
Because it is large number (a large number of nations? The big number argument?
I bet Prussia, Russia, and Austria could have gotten a large number of nations to agree to the partition of Poland. Bribes, the threat of force or other reason might be at work, but they may have gotten it if there had been a UN-like body at the time.
Hitler got 100 scientists to denounce Einstein's theories. What does consensus mean?
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