The Australian chairman of the U.N. Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee on Thursday urged the United Nations’ 193 member states to continue enforcing U.N. sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program.
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However, experts say the shake-up is some time away from yielding fruit. The government must still draw up secondary legislation to implement the reform.
The Security Council discussed the sanctions committee’s report hours after the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had blacklisted several additional companies and individuals for supporting Iran’s nuclear program.
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U.S. oil giant Exxon sees an opening up of Mexico’s oil sector as a “win-win”.
Australia’s U.N. Ambassador Gary Quinlan told the 15-nation Security Council that a November 24 interim deal between Iran and six world powers, which offers Iran limited sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, did not affect countries’ legal obligations to implement U.N. measures.
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The floor of the lower house started to debate the bill just a few hours after it arrived from the Senate. In a swipe against the PRD and other left-wing lawmakers trying to derail the reform, legislators from the PRI, PAN and Green Party voted to bypass the committees usually consulted.
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“The Security Council measures … remain in effect; and States have an obligation to implement them duly,” Quinlan said in his latest 90-day report. “It is only by a Security Council decision that these measures can be modified or terminated, and, until then, member states are obligated to enforce them.”
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At more than 10 billion barrels, Mexico has Latin America’s third-largest proven oil reserves after Venezuela and Brazil. It also has nearly 30 billion barrels of prospective resources in territorial deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The revised bill did not go that far, but it opened up the prospect of production-sharing contracts and licenses, and both parties were keen to pass it this week.
The five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany aim to negotiate a long-term deal with Iran by late next year to end the decade-long nuclear standoff.
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