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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls on the international community to maintain a dialogue with the Taliban in Afghanistan after the group announced new caretaker government in the country following the full withdrawal of US troops and their allies.

The United Nations (UN) has warned that cutting aid funds to the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan could throw millions into severe poverty and trigger a major refugee crisis.

The Taliban caretaker government has asked the United Nations to take the group's leaders off its blacklist. Several members of the interim government in Kabul are on the UN Security Council's terrorism blacklist, including acting Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund.

The UN General Assembly has, in a resolution, strongly condemned Myanmar’s human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention.

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his great humanitarian work, has died at the age of 80.

The recent victories achieved by the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement against ISIS terrorists have frightened the Israeli regime so much that it is asking the UN to help allay its fears.

Iran has condemned as “selective and spiteful” the UN Human Rights Council's resolution to renew the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic, saying it was a politically-motivated move by a few countries abusing UN mechanisms.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has condemned a UN resolution on the state of human rights in Iran as unacceptable and baseless.

The purpose of the European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini’s Saturday visit to Iran was exchanging views, not negotiating, about war-torn Syria, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.

Iran’s envoy to the United Nations slammed the Israeli regime as the only obstacle in the way of establishment of a nuclear weapon free Middle East.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has offered his heart-felt congratulation to Antonio Guterres on his election as the new UN secretary general, expressing the hope that he would engage in an all-out fight against extremism and help find peaceful solutions to the crises in Syria and Yemen.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations highlighted the country’s strategic approach to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, explaining the projects Iran has devised to that end.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met with a number of world leaders on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

Iran says the United Nations’ decision to temporarily reverse the blacklisting of Saudi Arabia for killing Yemeni children amounts to a betrayal of the defenceless minors.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Iran and Saudi Arabia should compromise and interact responsibly vis-à-vis the tensions in the Middle East.

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes carried out on Yemeni civilians have violated the humanitarian law, a UN panel of experts announced.

Fifty Arab human rights organizations drew attention to Saudi Arabia’s onslaught against civilians in Yemen, calling for efforts to have the Arab country stripped of its membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the use of cluster bombs in Yemen by Saudi Arabia may amount to war crimes.

The president is expected to deliver a speech at the three-day Sustainable Development Summit on Saturday.

The UN secretary general told the Iranian top MP that he would pay an official visit to Iran in the near future.

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that the Iran nuclear deal and Resolution 2231 are unique in the history of the United Nations.

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warmly welcomed the historic agreement in Vienna and congratulated the P5+1 and Iran for reaching the agreement.

Mohammad Khatami, who championed the idea of Dialogue among Civilizations, has condemned in a letter to the UN chief acts of terror worldwide, calling for the revival of dialogue among nations and religions.

Iran has slammed the UN Security Council’s rejection of Palestine statehood proposal, saying it shows the only option for the Palestinian nation to reclaim their rights is to continue their resistance.

The Iranian judiciary chief has rejected reports that women’s rights are trampled in Iran or that mass executions have taken place in the country.