As usual, the delegation of the United States, Canada and Israel boycotted the speech at the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was given the opportunity to speak at the podium of the UN General Assembly's Annual Session. However, unlike usual, this time the boycott was not followed by delegations from European countries.
According to the news station ABC News, a scene that occurs on the second day session of the General view to the 67th Annual Session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday afternoon local time (midnight GMT). Rows of the U.S. and Israeli delegations empty during Ahmadinejad's speech. So it is with Canada.
The boycott has been many times they've done over Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN, both in New York and in Geneva. According to the U.S. delegation, this action is a symbol of their protest over anti-Israel views are often expressed Ahmadinejad during a speech.
The U.S. had anticipated after listening to a press statement that the head of the Iranian government to the media on his arrival in New York before a speech at the United Nations. "For two days, we have been listening to Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations re-use is not to convey the aspirations of the Iranian people, but instead threw paranoid theories and disgusting slur on Israel," said Erin Pelton, a spokesman for U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice.
"Too bad that Ahmadinejad will be speaking at the UN General Assembly on the day of Yom Kippur, so that is the reason the U.S. is not present," said Pelton, referring to the Jewish holy day commonly celebrated in Israel, Yom Kippur.
Schedule Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN on Yom Kippur coincide. During his speech, he referred to Israel as the "Zionist uncivilized". "The threat is not sustained by the Zionist civilized by deploying military action against our great nation is a tangible example of a unilateral world order and intimidation," Ahmadinejad said in a speech quoted by the UN's official website.
Related to Israel anyway, Ahmadinejad also called "fake government" formed in the colony of Palestine. He also criticized the "hegemonic policies and actions of world Zionism."
Not as usual, delegates of member countries of the European Union did not follow the U.S. boycott. They still follow the Ahmadinejad speech.
For the European delegation, Ahmadinejad's speech this time is not "too far." However, speech still criticized. "Ahmadinejad gave a speech long and rambling," said a European diplomat told Reuters.
"Previously, we walk out because he views the anti-Jewish conspiracy threat to Israel and 9/11. This year, the crime he was talking nonsense," said the diplomat.
Since becoming president of Iran in 2005, was eight times Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN's annual forum. The possibility of this being his last speech as leader of Iran at the UN General Assembly due to retire next year as president after twice served.
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