US declares boycott of UN Disarmament Conference

The United States will not send an ambassador to attend meetings of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament during Iran's rotating presidency.

This is the statement of the US Government issued on May 13 to protest what Washington considers Tehran's "inappropriate role" in the United Nations regarding the sanctions targeting this country.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Photo: AFP)

In alphabetical order, Iran will officially hold the rotating presidency of the Conference on Disarmament from May 27 to June 23.

Responding to the event, spokeswoman for the US Mission to the United Nations Erin Pelton said that Iran, which is subject to international sanctions related to its controversial nuclear program, was "inappropriate and regrettable." and affirmed that Washington would not attend meetings of the Conference on Disarmament chaired by Iran.

Any country subject to sanctions under Article VII of the UN Charter related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or serious human rights abuses should not have any official role in UN agencies, US officials said.

Iran's diplomatic mission to the United Nations has yet to comment on the harsh decision of the US.

The controversial nuclear program remains a difficult issue to resolve, causing a deadlock in negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the United Nations and Western countries.

Last April, Tehran participated in talks between the P5+1 group (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, but the two sides failed to reach an agreement on a common approach to ease Western concerns about its nuclear program.

World powers have proposed easing sanctions on Iran in exchange for Tehran curbing uranium enrichment, which the West fears is aimed at producing nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, Iran asserts its right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes.

It is expected that on May 15, Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold a new round of negotiations in the Austrian capital Vienna.

With 65 member countries, the United Nations Conference on Disarmament was established in 1978 with the aim of making agreements on the control of chemical and biological weapons. However, since 1998, the activities of this agency have hardly progressed due to disagreements among member countries./.

According to (TTXVN) - DT