New York:
Just hours following the assassination of a top rated Iranian nuclear scientist, Tehran demanded the United Nations Security Council condemn the killing and take action against these accountable, but diplomats say the get in touch with is most likely to go unheeded.
At a minimum, the 15-member physique could go over Friday’s killing of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh behind closed doors if a member requests such a meeting or it could agree on – by consensus – a statement on the situation.
But South Africa’s U.N. ambassador, Jerry Matjila, council president for December, mentioned on Tuesday that no member had so far requested to go over the killing or Iran in common. Diplomats also mentioned there had been no discussion of a statement.
The Security Council is charged with keeping international peace and safety and has the potential to authorize military action and impose sanctions. But such measures need at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, France, Britain, Russia or China.
While no celebration has claimed duty for the killing of Fakhrizadeh – viewed by Western powers as the architect of Iran’s abandoned nuclear weapons system – Iran has accused Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace has declined to comment.
The United States traditionally shields Israel from any action at the Security Council. Washington has declined to comment on the assassination of the scientist.
The U.N. investigator on additional-judicial executions, Agnes Callamard, mentioned on Friday that a lot of concerns surrounded the killing of Fakhrizadeh, but noted the definition of an extraterritorial targeted killing outdoors of an armed conflict.
Callamard posted on Twitter that such a killing was “a violation of international human rights law prohibiting the arbitrary deprivation of life and a violation of the U.N. Charter prohibiting the use of force extraterritorially in times of peace.”
Iran also addressed its letter on Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In response, Guterres urged restraint and condemned “any assassination or extra-judicial killing,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric mentioned on Saturday.
The Security Council is due to meet on Dec. 22 for its biannual meeting on compliance with a resolution that enshrines a 2015 nuclear accord amongst globe powers and Iran, which U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration quit in 2018.
Any council member or Iran could select to raise the killing of Fakhrizadeh in the course of that meeting.
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