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North Korea said Tuesday the United Nations effectively declared war on the country when it imposed sanctions for the North's nuclear test.
North Korea wants "peace but is not afraid of war," the North's Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The U.N. Security Council "resolution cannot be construed otherwise than a declaration of a war," the ministry said, calling the sanctions "a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward" North Korea.
The ministry warned that if anyone used the U.N....
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Iran suggested on Monday that the United Nations headquarters be relocated from New York to a country other than the United States.
“The U.S. tries to pressure Iran in any way possible. We are convinced that considerations should be made regarding the United Nations which is based in this country”, government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told reporters during his weekly press conference.
“Either the UN must be relocated from the U.S. and set up in a different country or the U.S.’s provisions in this regard must be limited so...
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“You don’t need Security Council authority to impose sanctions,” Ambassador John R. Bolton says.
With increasing signs that several fellow Security Council members may stall a United States push to penalize Iran for its nuclear enrichment program, Bush administration officials have indicated that they are prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade.
The strategy, analysts say, reflects not only long-standing U.S. frustration with the Security Council's inaction on Iran, but also the current...
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