New York, Jan 14, IRNA Spokesperson for the UN chief Martin Nesirky said Monday that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed satisfaction with implementation of the Geneva deal hoping the promising process would continue in future. Speaking in a press conference, Nesirky told IRNA that all UN officials, the secretary general in particular, have ...

The United Nations hopes that talks between Russia and the US over Irans participation in the upcoming international conference on Syria would yield a result, a UN official says. UN Secretary General's Spokesperson Martin Nesirky on Friday expressed hope that impending talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State ...

A high-ranking official at the United Nations says UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has stated that Iran is definitely among countries participating in the forthcoming Geneva 2 conference on the ongoing crisis in Syria. Mr. Brahimi made clear that Iran is certainly among the list of possible participants, UN spokesman Martin ...

NEW YORK Unidentified snipers shot at UN experts Monday forcing them to suspend their attempt to investigate claims that chemical weapons had been used near Damascus, a UN spokesman said. "The first vehicle of the chemical weapons investigation team was deliberately shot at multiple times by unidentified snipers," said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky....