Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani, described the campaign in support of the proposed resolution as “ridiculous, misleading and deceptive,” according to Iranian state media reports

The codex, a sixth-century copy of St Paul’s epistles, had been partially lost after being disassembled in the 13th century at the Great Lavra Monastery, located on Mount Athos in northern Greece