The United Nations (UN) is the centrepiece of what is touted as the rules-based international order. The entrenched biases in these rules are, however, laid bare by the composition and voting ...

Here’s a look at Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Since 2003, worldwide concern over Iran’s nuclear program has increased as Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spar over investigation ...

December 23, 2006 - The UN Security Council votes unanimously to impose ... June 18-19, 2012 - A meeting is held between Iran and the P5+1 (United States, France, Russia, China, Great Britain ...

All five permanent Security Council members (known as the P5) had fought for the Allied side. The USSR, realising that it stood to be outnumbered by Western countries in the UN, tried to argue that ...

Russia’s Ambassador to Tehran Alexey Dedov claims Western countries are seeking to exclude Russia and China from negotiations ...

Conversely, the existing vetoes of the current P5 could be limited, such as never using them to block Security Council action aimed at preventing or ending genocide, crimes against humanity or war ...

Called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), it involved the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ... collectively known as the P5+1. In exchange for lifting sanctions ...

Trump has already signalled that while he doesn’t underestimate America’s relationship with India, he isn’t exactly chummy with Narendra Modi ...

with the P5+1 group of countries (the USA, UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany) under which it agreed to limit its nuclear development programme in return for the lifting of sanctions. IN ...