Summary UN Security Council has refused to back a report that Iran violated UN sanctions.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council has refused to back a report by a panel of experts which unanimously concluded that Iran violated U.N. sanctions when it launched several ballistic missiles last July.
Australia s U.N. Ambassador Gary Quinlan, who chairs the committee monitoring sanctions on Iran, said Monday the council also refused to endorse the panel s conclusion that Iran violated or probably violated sanctions by shipping weapons to Yemeni insurgents in January that were seized by the government.
Quinlan told the council that a number of council members backed the panel s view that the launches violated sanctions and therefore all U.N. member states should redouble efforts to implement ballistic missile-related sanctions on Iran. But Quinlan said "at this stage some committee members cannot share this view."
