Iran slams suspension of UN voting rights

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TEHRAN, 04 June 2021, (TON): Iran slammed the United Nations’ decision to suspend its voting rights for failing to pay its dues as “fundamentally flawed, entirely unacceptable and completely unjustified”.

Tehran argues that the $16.2 million it owes to the UN is the result of Washington’s crippling sanctions, imposed after former president Donald Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew the US from a nuclear deal with Iran.

Iran’s voting rights at the UN General Assembly were suspended in January under rules for countries whose arrears are equal to or exceed their contributions due for the past two years.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his strong dismay at the loss of voting rights, in a letter sent to UN chief Antonio Guterres, “Iran’s inability to fulfil its financial obligation toward the United Nations is directly caused by ‘unlawful unilateral sanctions’ imposed by the United States.”

Zarif further said that Iran rejected the suspension of its voting rights because Tehran’s incapacity to transfer its financial contribution has been entirely beyond its control.

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