Speaking local time on Monday before the UN Second Committee, the Iranian ambassador and permanent representative of the United Nations mentioned last week’s general meeting session. There, world leaders highlighted the urgency to tackle global challenges, strengthen multilateral development, fulfill long-standing development commitments, and take critical action against candidate change through climate change. Many people also called for immediate international action to end the one-sided thing and to stop Gaza’s genocide.
Iravani emphasized that development cannot be pursued on its own and requires stability, solidarity, cooperation and equitable access to resources. However, he said that the continued failure of developed countries to fulfill their commitments, from predictable funding and provision of environmental technology to support multilateralism, has significantly undermined global development efforts. He added that rising global military spending is diverting scarce resources away from emergency development priorities.
“The situation in the Middle East is very disastrous,” Irabani clearly emphasized that it was the result of power outside certain regions, ongoing armed conflict, long-term occupation, genocide interventionism and military policies committed by the Israeli regime. These factors consistently retreated regional development and deepened the challenges.
He said these illegal measures would be exacerbated by the imposition of unilateral forced actions that violate basic human rights, such as disrupting development rights, legitimate trade and investment and undermining equality of state sovereignty. He also warns such behavior, exacerbating environmental degradation and endangers the health and livelihood of vulnerable groups, particularly children, women, the elderly and those with medical conditions.
Referring to recent events, Irabani said on June 13, 2025, the US-backed Israeli regime launched a massive military attack on Iran’s Islamic Republic. Then, on June 22, it carried out an illegal attack on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities. These attacks constitute a blatant violation of the UN Charter, international law, and humanitarian law. Private regions, hospitals, media and critical infrastructure were deliberately targeted, undermining international peace and security and seriously putting the non-proliferation treaty in danger.
He added that such illegal activities not only violate international law, they also pose a threat to human health, ecosystems and important resources.
He noted that these actions undermine trust, weaken cooperation and divert the international community from a common responsibility to protect current and future generations. Therefore, it is essential that these actions will soon cease and be firmly condemned so that environmental efforts on Earth can continue without confusion.
Irabani concluded that more than ever, one-sidedness threatens our world and undermines the foundations of peace, stability and development. These threats must be collectively and decisively rejected. Today, it is not division that the world urgently needs, but has strengthened multilateralism, true cooperation, solidarity and joint action under the central role of the United Nations.
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