Iran sanctions vote at U.N. seen weeks away
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It will take weeks before the U.N. Security Council is ready to vote on a new round of sanctions against Iran proposed last week by six world powers, council diplomats said on Monday.
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Several non-permanent U.N. Security Council members are holding up agreement on a new sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear program, said France's envoy to the United States on Friday.
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Iran faces the risk of sanctions after a   U.N. nuclear watchdog report on Thursday likely to find that   Tehran has ignored a deadline to halt an atomic fuel program   Western leaders say could lead to bombs.
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IRAN is expected to thwart American attempts to send its nuclear dossier to the United Nations Security Council this week, despite a fresh flurry of concerns about its apparent ambitions to make a bomb.
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Iran will consider taking 'illegal' steps if further UN sanctions are imposed over nuclear programme.
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The Security Council has narrowed differences over mandatory UN sanctions against North Korea for its missile tests, with only one sticking point standing in the way of a vote expected Saturday, diplomats said.
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Several non-permanent U.N. Security  Council members are holding up agreement on a new sanctions  resolution against Iran over its nuclear program, said France's  envoy to the United States on Friday.
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Major U.N. Security Council powers have agreed on an incremental increase in sanctions on Iran, including a new restriction on exporters doing business with the country, diplomats said Thursday.
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A defiant Iran faces the threat of U.N.  Security Council sanctions after the world body's atomic  watchdog said Tehran refused to stop work on its nuclear  program by a Thursday deadline.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's appeal for international troops to protect U.N. monitors during Iraq's elections next year is unlikely to get a reply from Europe before the U.S. elections, analysts and ...
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Iran said on Saturday it was surprised by proposed new sanctions over its nuclear program and said major powers should have waited for the verdict of a United Nations watchdog in March.
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A unanimous U.N. Security Council vote to condemn North Korea&#039;s missile launches has set an important precedent and strengthened the powerful U.N. body as it turns to its next challenge: confronting Iran&#039;s suspect nuclear program, diplomats said.
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Iran has persisted in enriching uranium despite the threat of U.N. sanctions and a looming deadline to freeze such operations, U.N. and European officials said Wednesday.
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BERLIN -- The U.N. Security Council's permanent members and Germany agreed Tuesday on a new draft resolution on sanctions against Iran, strengthening existing measures over the country's refusal to suspend its nuclear program, officials said.
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After weeks of inaction, the United States and France appeared close to breaking a deadlock on a U.N. resolution aimed at ending the monthlong conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and a U.S. diplomat said there could be a vote on Friday.
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Europeans gave a revised draft resolution aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions to Russia and China and intend to circulate it to the full U.N. Security Council on Friday in hopes of a vote next week, two diplomats said.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) - The 192-member U.N. General Assembly is expected to  vote, perhaps by early or mid-November, on one of the most  divisive political issues before the world body: a moratorium on  the death penalty.