China and Russia submitted the project which received four votes in favor, nine against and two abstentions.
The text sought to extend the Complete full action plan (JCPOA) for six months until next April, as well as the Council Resolution 2231 (2015) who approved it. He also encouraged the continuous commitment between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea).
Snapback ‘sanctions’
Rejection means that the sanctions that have been raised under the agreement will be reinvested from Saturday evening.
Development comes a month after three European countries which signed the agreement-France, Germany and the United Kingdom-informed the Council of what they have described as “non-performances” and Iran violations, thus triggering the so-called “Snapback mechanism”.
The representative of China deeply regretted that the resolution was not adopted and called to maintain regional peace and stability.
“A break in the Iranian nuclear issue could trigger a new regional security crisis which goes against the common interests of the international community,” he said.
Ambassador Barbara Woodward explained why the United Kingdom voted no, saying that “as this council knows, Iran challenges the global non-proliferation regime”. In addition, his nuclear escalation has been detailed in more than 60 AIEA reports over the past six years.
“Iran’s actions mean that IAEA is unable to confirm that the Iranian nuclear program is exclusively peaceful,” she said.
“Among the steps that Iran has taken is the accumulation of a high stock of uranium which has no credible civil justification and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons program.”
The assistant representative of the United States, Dorothy Shea, was delighted that the Council rejected what it called “this last effort of the Federation of Russia and China”, qualifying the text “a hollow effort to relieve Iran of all responsibility for its significant non-performance of its nuclear commitments”.
Dmitry Polyanskiy, the deputy representative of Russia, addressed the nations who refused to support the project.
“Now there are certainly no more illusions,” he said. “These countries have definitively demonstrated that all their insurance on their emphasis on the arrival of a diplomatic resolution to the question of the Iranian nuclear program during all these years, were a simple noise.”
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
