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UN Political Chief on the Iran Nuclear Agreement - Security Council

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Remarks by Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on non-proliferation.

Security Council, 8297th meeting

Read More: https://undocs.org/en/S/2018/602

UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo relayed to the Security Council the UN’s assessment that missiles launched from Yemen into Saudi Arabia shared “key design features with the Iranian Qiam-1 ballistic missile” and that components of the missiles were “manufactured in Iran.”

Briefing the Council on the implementation of resolution 2231 which endorsed the Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA), DiCarlo said the agreement is at a crossroads despite Iran’s continued adherence to it. She said Secretary-General António Guterres depply regreted the United States’ withdrawl from the agreement and believes that issue not related to the JCPOA should be addressed without prejudice to preserving the agreement and its accomplishments. 

On ballistic missile-related provisions of the resolution, DiCarlo said, after examining debris from missiles launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen into Saudi Arabia, the UN assesses that the debris of the five missiles launched at Yanbu and Riyadh since July 2017 shared “key design features with the Iranian Qiam-1 ballistic missile” and that some component parts of the debris “were manufactured in Iran.” She noted however that the UN was presently unable to determine whether the missiles or the related technology was transferred from Iran after 16 January 2016, the date when the provisions came into effect. 

DiCarlo also reported that the UN examined arms seized in Bahrain after 16 January 2016, and obtained additional information on the unmanned surface vessel laden with explosives recovered by the United Arab Emirates. She added, “In both cases, the Secretariat is confident that some of the arms and related materiel it examined were manufactured in Iran. However, we are unable to confirm whether these items were transferred from Iran after 16 January 2016.”

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