Iran Press/Iran News: Elaborating on Iran’s membership fee payment methods to the United Nations, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Sunday that Iran’s latest proposed way for paying that money was to use Iran’s blocked money in South Korea by through a Central Bank of Iran license, negotiations, and collaboration on which are still underway.
"Iran insists that due to the US ill-intentions and misusing of Iranian monetary assets at the international scene the United Nations will not use an American bank as the mediator in this money transfer, or that the UN Security Council (UNSC) will ensure the security of this monetary transaction," he said.
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutters has in a letter addressed to the rotating head of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) demanded that 10 countries be temporarily deprived of voting right in the UNGA due to their increased debts to the UN.
In the letter Gutters has referred to Comoros, Libya, the Central African Republic, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Niger, Congo, Zimbabwe, and Iran as the indebted states to the UN.
The UN Secretary-General has in the letter claimed that Iran with its $16,251,298 debt ranks first among those ten countries and Niger with $7,000 has the least debt to that organization.
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