A second shipment of chemical weapons material has been removed from Syria under a deal to eliminate its arsenal, the joint UN mission overseeing the disarmament said Monday.
The UN General Assembly has unanimously adopted a nuclear disarmament resolution that includes proposals forwarded by Iran President Hassan Rouhani as head of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
Iran has been elected as the rapporteur of the UN First Committee on Disarmament and International Security shortly after Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s inflammatory speech against Tehran.
Iran will chair the United Nations’ most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel’s May session, which opened on Monday.
Iran’s ambassador to The Hague has reiterated that the Islamic Republic of Iran is committed to all disarmament treaties.