(BBC) The U.S. has warned it cannot accept Iraqi chairmanship of the UN Conference on Disarmament and is considering options to block such an appointment scheduled for May. "Iraq for more than 13 years has defied numerous UN Security Council resolutions demanding its disarmament," State Department spokeswoman Lynn Cassel said. "The United States believes it is unacceptable for Iraq to assume the presidency of the international community's main multilateral disarmament negotiating forum," she said. The Geneva-based 66-member organization was founded in 1979.
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