Iran calls for restructuring of UN, Security Council

16 April 2008

Tehran-Iran has called on Wednesday for restructuring the United Nations and the Security Council at the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union session in Cape Town, South Africa.

"As two major international bodies, the UN and the Security Council have seriously suffered from US unilateralism," said Majlis Vice-Speaker Mohammad Mohsen Abu-Torabi in his address to the IPU session.

The IPU meeting opened on Sunday.

Some 1,500 representatives from 140 member states have taken part in the ongoing week-long event.

Abu-Torabi said that IPU member states could "resists to the US unilateralism and pave the way for the UN reinforcement."

He stressed that the IPU member states could, through cooperation and making joint efforts, help international security and find solution for current challenges facing the contemporary world.

He urged all regional and international bodies to make joint efforts and find due responses to the current international challenges including the spread of weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, poverty, environmental crisis and organized crimes.