World Jewish Congress Calls for Boycott of Iranian Dictator at Upcoming UN Nuclear Review Conference
Urges WJC Communities Worldwide to Contact Governments
NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- World Jewish Congress today called for the United Nations delegates to demonstrate their outrage against the presence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad at next week's UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, and urged its member communities to communicate this to their governments. More than ironic, the participation of the Iranian dictator who is engaged in an unrelenting mad race to enrich uranium in order to acquire nuclear weapons flies in the face of any serious and sincere discussion of non-proliferation. It is dismaying that, once again, the UN is allowing the head of a regime, foremost in the sponsorship of terrorism and the abuse of human rights, who defies UN resolutions regarding its nuclear ambitions, to appear before the international body.
WJC president Ronald S. Lauder said, "The United Nations cannot continue to countenance the appearance and participation of an abusive regime bent on the acquisition of nuclear capability. The intentions of its use by Iran have been clearly enunciated time and again by its president, a denier of the Holocaust who repeatedly threatens the United States and Europe, and who continuously issues menacing threats to 'wipe Israel off the map.' A country that supports terrorist activity worldwide and intimidates its own people with egregious human rights violations should not be given a platform by the organization that is the repository of international human rights."
"We urge all UN delegates to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to once again demonstrate their outrage and protest the hypocrisy of Ahmedinejad's presence by leaving the hall for his address. We call on all World Jewish Congress member communities to urgently contact their governments to instruct their UN representatives to walk out during Ahmedinejad's speech," said Lauder.
SOURCE World Jewish Congress
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