Guess who is the new vice-chaircountry of the United Nations Disarmament Commission? Which country is now responsible for overseeing the commission's priorities of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation?
The recent record of the Disarmament Commission was far from satisfactory, but now, more than ever, it should use the opportunity of an agreed agenda to strengthen the disarmament machinery to effectively deal with new emerging threats and challenges, the new Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Nobuaki Tanaka, said today upon the opening of the Commission’s substantive session. ...In other business, the following delegations were elected as Vice-chairpersons, by acclamation: Chile, Uruguay and Iran.
Yes, that's right -- Iran is now in change of preventing nuclear proliferation.
(HT: James Taranto.)
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