UN accuses Iran of violating sanctions

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Source: CCTV.com | 03-12-2009 09:49

A key UN Security Council committee says Iran violated UN sanction by attempting to send arms-related material reportedly to Syria.

The Russian-owned ship Monchegorsk is docked off the  southern Cypriot Mediterranean port of Limassol in  February 2009. A UN Security Council panel has concluded that a shipment of Syria-bound Iranian arms intercepted  by Cypriot authorities last January was in clear  violation of UN arms sanctions on Tehran. (AFP/Pavlos Vrionides)

A UN member state, identified as Cyprus, sent a letter to the committee in early February, disclosing that the cargo ship docked in its country in late January, and that the vessel is still there.

But there has been no decision as yet about what to do with the cargo.

Editor:Zhang Yun