Iran not counting on Russian, Chinese veto of its dossier at UN

Itar-Tass News Agency:

Iran does not count on Russia and China’s power of veto at the UN Security Council, should its nuclear dossier be taken to the Council or should the issue of economic and/or political sanctions against this country rise to the UN agenda, Hamid-Reza Asefi, an official spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said Sunday. READ MORE

The genuine supporting pillar of the Islamic Republic of Iran is found within itself, he said.

Teheran does not count on a Russian or Chinese veto in the Security Council, but it reiterates that Iran will act scrupulously on all obligations to those two countries, Asefi said.

He also indicated the huge losses that the European Union countries and the rest of the world would suffer from a transfer of the Iranian dossier to the Security Council, adding that Iran itself would sustain much smaller losses in that case.

Asefi said, however, he hoped the European trio of mediators – Britain, France and Germany – would look attentively at the new Iranian nuclear initiatives.

Basic provisions of the plan will be formulated in September when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits New York to attend a session of the UN General Assembly.