Dmitry Polyansky. File photoUN, Oct 20Moscow will reconsider its interaction with the UN Secretariat and the Secretary General of the organization if they take part in the «investigation» in connection with the accusations of supplying Iranian drones to the Russian Federation, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN, told reporters. Earlier, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN Sergey Kislitsa sent a letter to the chairman Security Council, which stated that Iran is transferring UAVs of the Mohajer and Shahed series to Russia. According to him, this violates paragraph 4 of annex «B» of resolution 2231, which approved the establishment of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear program. The annex, in particular, states that it prohibits the transfer by Iran of all items, materials, equipment, goods and technologies, unless they are approved in advance by the UN Security Council on a case-by-case basis. Kislitsa's letter says that Kyiv would like to invite UN experts to visit Ukraine at the earliest opportunity to study Iranian-made UAVs in order to facilitate the implementation of resolution 2231. «/>Pentagon: U.S. has no evidence that Iran is supplying missiles to RussiaAccording to him, the situation with drones has nothing to do with resolution 2231, which approved the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear program. «On the role of the secretariat: it does not have a mandate to conduct any investigations regarding UN Security Council Resolution 2231. Its role is purely technical — to prepare meeting rooms, distribute notices, and so on. They are not a sanctions committee or a group of experts,» Polyansky said. According to him, the secretariat has neither a mandate nor expertise for investigations. «We hope that the secretariat and the secretary general will not violate the decisions of the Security Council and will not go beyond their technical mandate and refrain from participating in any illegal investigation. Otherwise, we will have to reconsider our cooperation with them, which is hardly included in anyone's interests We do not want to do this, but we will have no other choice … We hope they refrain from doing this irresponsibly step,” the diplomat concluded. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Monday denied the newly emerging information from the American media about the supply of Iranian weapons to the Russian side for their use in hostilities in Ukraine. Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the topic of Russia's purchase of combat drones from Iran was artificially thrown into the US media. in conflicts began to be used more and more often
