It has become fashionable to characterize my country as “unilateralist” and against all arms control agreements.

In fact, trying to characterize our policy as “unilateralist” or “multilateralist” is a futile exercise.

The current situation is becoming increasingly acute due to arbitrariness on the part of unilateralist forces.

The alternative would be to accept a unilateralist remit suggested by a few.

A factor that can work against our hopes is a unilateralist trend so apparent at the global level.

Our insistence that multilateralism be effective may not always make us popular, but it hardly makes us “unilateralist”.

Unilateralist tendencies could break the only institutional framework in which developing countries could defend their economic and trading interests.

Fortunately, that unilateralist approach evoked weak support, and we are glad that it has not been pressed to a vote.

Unilateralists in the same context are particularly threatening the foundations of the non-proliferation regime and the NPT itself.

Such a unilateralist policy is creating an inappropriate precedent in discussing the nuclear issue of Iran within IAEA.