Showing posts with label walk-out. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Britain walked out of a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran at the United Nations on Wednesday night in protest at anti-Semitic remarks.
The speech came as the international community raised the pressure on Iran to acknowledge its nuclear programme ahead of key talks next week.
South American delegations also marched from the grand hall at UN headquarters when the controversial leader denounced what he said was a global Jewish conspiracy, amid a long rant against capitalism and Western hypocrisy.
He denounced a "small minority dominating much of the world through a complicated network", and went on to call Iran a "glorious, democratic nation".
The United States, Canada and Israel decided earlier to boycott the speech before the annual UN General Assembly, after Mr Ahmadinejad repeated his denial of the Holocaust in a speech in Iran on Monday. He has also regularly called on Jews to leave Israel. >>> Alex Spillius in New York | Thursday, September 24, 2009
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