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UN Envoy Admires Iran for Supporting Syria’s Constitutional Committee

TEHRAN (defapress) – The UN secretary-general’s special envoy for Syria lauded Iran for its continued supports for the activities of Syria’s Constitutional Committee .
News ID: 80147    Publish Date : 2020/02/08

Parl. key committee strongly condemns US-proposed Mideast plan

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee vehemently condemned the US’ new plot for the Middle East as declaring war against Islam.
News ID: 80103    Publish Date : 2020/02/04

Libya's Joint Military Committee to Meet on January 28

TEHRAN (defapress) – The first session of Libya's joint military committee with five representatives of each party in the conflict is scheduled for January 28 in Geneva, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters after closed consultations on Libya at the UN Security Council.
News ID: 79977    Publish Date : 2020/01/22

Syria Says US Seeking to Impose Own Agenda on Constitutional Committee

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syria’s Foreign Ministry said the US is seeking to impose its own agenda on the Syrian Constitutional Committee .
News ID: 79454    Publish Date : 2019/12/02

UN First Committee Rejects Proposal to Consider Moving Its Sessions from US

TEHRAN (defapress) – The UN General Assembly's First Committee on disarmament has voted against Russia's proposal to consider moving its sessions from the United States if the UN and Washington fail to resolve visa issues of Russian delegates.
News ID: 79231    Publish Date : 2019/11/09

UN:

1st Meeting of Syria's Constitutional Committee Better Than Expected

TEHRAN (defapress) – The United Nation's envoy for Syria said first talks in Geneva on the country's constitution involving Syrian government, opposition and civil society representatives have "gone much better" than many would have expected.
News ID: 79230    Publish Date : 2019/11/09

Iran attends 43rd UNESCO World Heritage Committee session in Baku

TEHRAN (defapress) – An Iranian delegation comprising seven members arrived in the Azerbaijani capital Baku late Monday to attend the 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee .
News ID: 77944    Publish Date : 2019/07/02

Nat. security committee to finalize report on US human rights violations today

TEHRAN (defapress) – Chairman of Iranian Parliament’s national security committee Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh announced that the committee will finalize the report on US’ violations of human rights during the past year on its Monday evening session.
News ID: 76832    Publish Date : 2019/04/15

State Media':

North Korea's Ruling Party to Meet amid 'Tense Situation

TEHRAN (defapress) – North Korea will hold a plenary session of its ruling party’s central committee on Wednesday, a day after leader Kim Jong Un chaired a politburo meeting to discuss ways to make progress under the “prevailing tense situation”, state media reported.
News ID: 76725    Publish Date : 2019/04/10

US House Committee Seeks Trump's Tax Returns

TEHRAN (defapress)- A House committee chairman in the United States formally asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide six years of US President Donald Trump's personal tax returns in a long-awaited move widely expected to lead to a long court battle with the White House.
News ID: 76598    Publish Date : 2019/04/04

Iran, Georgia hold joint consular committee meeting in Tbilisi

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran and Georgia held on Saturday the fourth meeting of their joint consular committee in Tbilisi with a focus on facilitating travels of Iranian nationals to the Eurasian country.
News ID: 75802    Publish Date : 2019/02/24

Turkey Condemns European Parliament Committee Call to Suspend Accession

TEHRAN (defapress) - Turkey criticized on Thursday as "unacceptable" a vote by the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee calling for the suspension of EU accession negotiations with it.
News ID: 75745    Publish Date : 2019/02/21

Lords Committee Finds Britain's Saudi Weapons Sales Unlawful

TEHRAN (defapress)- The United Kingdom is on “the wrong side of the law” by sanctioning arms exports to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen and should suspend some of the export licenses, an all-party Lords committee stressed.
News ID: 75651    Publish Date : 2019/02/16

National Security Committee to review Zahedan terror attack

TEHRAN (defapress) – Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iranian Parliament, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh announced that the committee will hold special sessions to review Zahedan terror attack on Feb. 17-18.
News ID: 75634    Publish Date : 2019/02/16

MP’:

Transfer of oil revenues via INSTEX ‘off the table

TEHRAN (defapress) – Chairman of Parliament’s Economic Committee said Tue. that EU’s recently created trade mechanism for Iran (INSTEX) has excluded the transfer of Iran’s oil revenues, adding the mechanism has no timetable or contract bond.
News ID: 75410    Publish Date : 2019/02/05

FM Zarif, Parliament’s Committee to Discuss INSTEX

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will join a meeting of members of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee on Monday to discuss the EU’s financial mechanism to bypass the US unilateral sanctions against Tehran.
News ID: 75405    Publish Date : 2019/02/04

Iran’s Zarif Due in Geneva for Talks on Syria Constitutional Committee

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is going to travel to Geneva on Tuesday for a UN-sponsored meeting on formation of a Syrian constitutional committee.
News ID: 74397    Publish Date : 2018/12/18