Spokesman: UN welcomes Ayatollah Khamenei's remarks on UNSC's reform

New York, Aug 30, IRNA – UN spokesman Farhan Haq said on Thursday that the remarks by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on a need for reforming structure of the UN Security Council are welcomed by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Haq noted that the Ban usually welcomes such proposals or ideas that will result in international legitimacy of the UN Security Council. 'While the resolutions of the UN Security Council are important and what has been issued so far should be respected by the governments, such proposals have always been paid heed to,' he added. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in his inaugural speech of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran had said that the UN Security Council has an irrational, unjust and completely undemocratic structure. 'This is an evident dictatorship and an obsolete and outdated situation. It is through abusing such wrong mechanism that the US and its allies have managed to impose their bullies under the guise of acceptable concepts in the world,' Ayatollah Khamenei added.