How did the United Nations approve Iran’s growing political weight? – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
Mehr News Agency, International Group: Last Thursday, the world once again witnessed the victory of Iran’s diplomacy over the United States and its supporters to the Islamic Republic of Iran both as the vice president of the 78th United Nations General Assembly and as the reporter of the General Assembly’s Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of this Committee to be elected.
With this decision, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been appointed as one of the 16 vice-presidents and among the five vice-presidents of the General Assembly from the Asia-Pacific group in the upcoming session of the Assembly, which will begin next September with the presence of high-ranking officials of the countries. They will be responsible for setting the agenda and prioritizing the assembly meetings.
In addition to Iran, 15 other countries such as Bolivia, Congo, Estonia, Gambia, Iceland, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Senegal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Zambia were also elected as vice presidents of the assembly.
The importance and mechanism of the United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly is the main and consultative pillar of the United Nations and all the countries of the world participate in the assembly. The fourth chapter of the Charter deals with the Assembly and emphasizes that each member of the United Nations shall have one vote in the Assembly and shall not have more than five representatives.
The General Assembly regularly convenes its annual periodical session from September to December or sometimes January, and in exceptional cases, at the request of the Security Council or at the request of a member with the consent of the majority of members, it will have an extraordinary session. In fact, the General Assembly does not convene permanently. The regular meeting of the assembly is held every year from the third week of September for 3 to 4 months at the headquarters of the organization in New York.
Voting on important issues such as maintaining peace and security, issues related to the budget and electing members is done with a two-thirds majority, and decisions are made on other issues with a simple majority.
The decisions and resolutions of the General Assembly are mainly declarative or recommendatory, but sometimes some of these declarative resolutions become implicitly binding on member states with the passage of time and repetition, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The United Nations General Assembly includes seven main committees, which are:
– First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)
– The second committee (economic and financial)
– The third committee (social, humanitarian and cultural)
– The fourth committee (special political and decolonization)
– Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary Affairs)
– Sixth Committee (Legal)
– In addition to these 6 main committees, there is another committee (the 7th committee) that examines and controls the powers of delegations.
The role of geographical variables in the selection of the board of directors
As mentioned, the general assembly begins to elect the board of directors at least three months before the start of the regular session. This board is composed of a chairman, 21 vice-chairmen (16 countries plus five members of the Security Council) and the heads of 7 main committees.
The election of the president of the general assembly is very important to guide the negotiations and the coordinating role he has. In practice and based on the agreement between the member governments, the president of the General Assembly is never chosen from among the five permanent members of the Security Council.
According to Resolution 1990 approved in 1963, to ensure geographical equality, the president of the assembly is chosen in turn from among five groups of countries from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Western Europe and other governments. The General Assembly on Thursday elected Denis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago as the President of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
As mentioned, in the election of the members of the General Assembly, including the chairman and deputy the bossesThere is a geographical rotation of this office among the mentioned regions so that in addition to five representatives from the permanent members of the Security Council, there are six representatives from African countries, five representatives from Asian countries, three representatives from Latin American countries, two representatives from Western Europe and one Representatives are elected from Western Europe.
This geographical variable has caused Iran’s representatives to be elected to different positions several times during the life of the UN General Assembly. In 2011, “Mohammed Khazaei” represented our country as a deputy the bosses The assembly was elected. earlier In 1950 (1329), Iran’s representative in the United Nations, Nasrullah Tzam, was elected as the annual president of the General Assembly.
Washington-Tel Aviv’s fear of increasing Iran’s political weight
At the same time as the election of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the vice president of the 78th General Assembly and as the reporter of the Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Committee of the General Assembly, we witnessed the protest of the representatives of the United States and the Zionist regime in the United Nations.
Of course, the approach of protesting and accusing Iran was not unpredictable, and during the past weeks, the American delegation in New York and the Zionists had made extensive efforts in diplomatic circles to prevent the appointment of Iran in these two positions. After the approval of this decision, they protested the choice of Iran while repeating false accusations against our country’s missile and nuclear program.
The representative of the United States, who was angry with this choice, could not hide his anger and clearly stated that the United States was against the selection of Iran as the vice-chairman of the 78th General Assembly.
He then repeated Washington’s usual false accusations and claimed that Iran ignores the sanctions of the Security Council, violates human rights and exports weapons, and creates instability throughout the Middle East and the world, and cannot act as a neutral in his role as vice president. General Assembly to act.
These claims have been made while the aggressive policies and occupations of the United States, such as what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, and its terrible consequences are not hidden from anyone. Fueling the war in Ukraine, trying to create a crisis in Taiwan, filling the warehouses and arsenals of different countries of the world with American weapons, setting fires in the sensitive region of West Asia, breach of contract And withdrawing from the most important organizations and international agreements are just a few examples of these tension-causing measures.
It was in this connection that the representative of Iran at the UN meeting, criticizing the hypocritical policy of the United States, stated that it is a bitter irony that the American government, while unilaterally and illegally withdrawing from the JCPOA in violation of Resolution 2231, has transferred the Islamic Republic of Iran to Violation of this resolution accuses.
The Iranian diplomat also clarified about the conspiracy of the Zionist authorities: statements projective The representative of Israel against Iran is the continuation of this country’s policy to cover up the crimes of this regime against the Palestinian people and the region.
The end of the word
Although the election of the president and vice president the bosses In the United Nations General Assembly, it is a rotational process based on geographical variables, and for this reason, Iran’s name is visible among the countries of the Assembly’s Presidium, but it coincides with the selection of Iran as the rapporteur of the Disarmament Committee and the non-distribution of the General Assembly’s position and weight. Political Tehran has added.
In addition to these successes, a few weeks ago, the Islamic Republic was elected as the head of the UN Human Rights Council’s social forum. The forum will convene on November 2 and 3 (November 11 and 12) at the headquarters of the organization in Geneva, and “Ali Bahraini”, the ambassador and permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, will be the chairman of this forum.
The election of Iran as the head of the UN Human Rights Council’s social forum was also an unprecedented event that many Arab and Asian countries chose Iran’s name to head this forum. An issue that is directly related to the diplomatic relations and the game of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the region.
In this regard, a few days ago, “Nazi Mansour, a former member of the Lebanese Parliament and an expert on political issues, emphasized that the Islamic Republic of Iran has become a big country and a regional and international player after the revolution.