Iran and Russia turn away from resolution draft; consensus looks distant
The Intercept
As previously warned by The Intercept, a coalition between Russian Federation and Iran seems now to be consolidated in DISEC. Both delegations avoided the latest working papers and did not sign them.
A recent press release granted with exclusivity by The Intercept goes, in its integrity, as follows:
“Both the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation feel in need to turn public their concerns regarding the Disarmament and Security Committee. It is clear that most of the representations which took part on the debate since Wednseday are totally incapable of having a broader view of the international relations, creating by their own hands a group on the margin of world’s status quo establishment. In our view, this committee is clearly being used as a means of imposing solutions which do not fit the reality on our countries. Our needs and statements concerning cybersecurity seem to not have been understood by some delegates in this meeting, once they keep concerning about economic losses while some of us have to deal with attacks towards their nuclear facilities.
We hope the discussion can get to more reasonable grounds. Surely we are here to debate and help finding solutions, but once more, the solutions may consider the position of each part of the discussion, regarding all the different views about complex subjects it implies.”
The tone of the release puts in question not only if the resolution is going to pass, but also if countries will be willing to follow it even by disagreeing so bluntly with it since the start. There is roughly one hour until the final resolution is presented and consensus now looks extremely unlikely to be reached.
