The UN Security Council is to vote on a draft resolution today to impose sanctions on Iran over its suspected nuclear work. The Council President for this month, Mexico's UN ambassador Claude Heller, said the co-sponsors of the draft resolution on Iran have announced that the resolution would be submitted this morning. After another round of informal consultations among the 15 council members, the Council President said that Turkey and Brazil had asked the council to have a substantive debate on the Iranian nuclear issue. The resolution, if adopted, would impose the fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran since 2006. It would build on existing measures and expand the breadth and reach of UN sanctions on Iran by creating new categories of sanctions. Meanwhile, Iranina President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned his country would not agree to nuclear talks if the sanctions were imposed. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said that a nuclear fuel-swap deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil was an offer that would not be repeated. Iran agreed in May to deposit 1200 kgs. of low-enriched uranium with Turkey, in return for reactor fuel but the U.S and its Western allies said the agreement was too little too late.
News On AIR | June 9, 2010 11:54 AM
UN Security Council to vote on draft sanctions resolution on Iran?