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2006 DEVELOPMENTS    Print    This is a selection of developments at the UN and is not intended to be a comprehensive collection of UN documents. Date: April 10, 2006 Title: "Disarmament Commission Opens Current Session (press release)" Original Source: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/dc3017.doc.htm Attachment: Click here to view this article in MS Word/PDF format Editor's Note: In an unprecedented travesty, even by UN standards, Iran has been elected as a Vice-Chairperson of the UN Disarmament Commission. The job of the Commission, as its title might suggest, was supposed to have something to do with disarmament. But one of its new Vice-Chairs is the world's number one advocate of nuclear weapons proliferation. Related Articles Date Name 4/19/2006 "Disarmament board chooses Iranian," The Jerusalem Post 4/11/2006 "Iran elected deputy for Asian nations of UN Commission on Disarmament," Islamic Republic news Agency

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