United Nations – Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the United Nations will never impose sanctions against Iran again as required by the United States until it receives green approval from the Security Council.
The UN leader said in a letter to the council president received Sunday through The Associated Press that “there seems to be uncertainty” that U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo activated the “backtracking” mechanism in the 2015 Security Council solution enshrining nuclear power. agreement between Iran and six major powers.
Trump’s leadership said Saturday that all UN sanctions opposing Iran have been restored, a move that the rest of the globals reject as illegal and will likely be ignored. The US announcement will be debatable at the UN General Assembly’s high-level annual meetings starting Monday, which are held mainly this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U. S. announcement came 30 days after Pompeo notified the board that the administration triggered a “retracement” because Iran in “significant default” with its obligations under the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA.
But the overwhelming majority of the 15-nation council finds U. S. action illegal.
They refer to Security Council Resolution 2231, which establishes the nuclear agreement. Sets that a “JCPOA player state” can cause the “snapback” mechanism. The United States insists that, as an original player, you have the legal right, even if you have stopped participating.
Guterres noted in the letter that “the Security Council took no after receiving the letter from the U. S. Secretary of State, or any of its members or its president. “
He said that most board members wrote to the board chairman “to the effect that the letter was not a notification” that the “rollback” had been activated. And he said that the presidents of the councilors for the months of August and September “have indicated that they are not in a position to act in this regard. “
For this reason, Guterres said, “It is up to the Secretary-General to continue as if such uncertainty existed. “
The UN Secretariat, through Guterres, provides the Security Council with the implementation of sanctions, adding the creation of committees and trained teams to monitor their implementation, as well as Internet sites on the nature of sanctions and lists of the that are on sanctions blacklists.
Guterres said the UN will not take any action “pending an explanation from the Security Council” as to whether or not the sanctions that have been lifted will be imposed again.
Under the snapback provision, UN sanctions at ease or lifted through the nuclear agreement are re-imposed and will have to be implemented through UN member states. acquisition or sale of traditional weapons.
The bans were lifted or the terms of the 2015 agreement in which Iran secured billions of dollars in sanctions in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.
China and Russia have been strong in rejecting America’s position, but America’s allies have also not been shy.
In a letter sent Friday to the President of the Security Council, Britain, France and Germany – the three European participants still committed to the agreement – they said the US announcement “is incapable of having a legal effect,” so it reprints the opposing sanctions. Iran.
Russia’s Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said the United States had turned away from itself. “It is very painful to see how a wonderful country humiliates itself in this way, opposes in its damn delirium the other members of the UN Security Council,” he wrote on Twitter.
The European Union’s foreign policy leader, Josep Borrell, who coordinates the JCPOA Joint Commission, reiterated that the United States cannot be “a committed state in JCPOA and cannot initiate the procedure for restoring UN sanctions. “So, he said, the sanctions are still lifted.
The UN’s Chinese project tweeted: “The unilateral announcement across the United States over the reverse of UN sanctions against Iran has no legal, political or practical effect. It’s time to end America’s political drama. “
In its own letter to the Security Council on Saturday, Iran said the U. S. resolution “is null and void, has no prestige or legal effect, and is completely unacceptable. “
The White House plans to include an executive order Monday specifying how the United States will enforce re-established sanctions, and the State and Treasury departments deserve how foreigners and businesses will be penalized for violations.
“The United States expects all UN member states to fully comply with their obligations to implement these measures,” Pompeo said. “If UN member states fail to meet their obligations to bring these sanctions into effect, the United States is ready to use our national government to impose the consequences of these mistakes and ensure that Iran does not benefit from prohibited activities through the United Nations.
It is still known how the leadership will react to being ignored, especially through its European allies, who have pledged to keep the nuclear agreement alive. A big rejection of the U. S. position. agencies, organizations and treaties, extra from the foreign community.