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| Iran to chair U.N. disarmament conference |
| 2013-05-13 |
| Iran will chair the United Nations’ most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel’s May session, which opened today, sparking calls by an independent monitoring group for the U.S., the EU, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon to protest. Click here for UN website. “This is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, the Geneva based non-governmental organization, which announced it will hold protest events outside the UN hall featuring Iranian dissidents. “Iran is an international outlaw state that illegally supplies rockets to Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas, aiding and abetting mass murder and terrorism. To make this rogue regime head of world arms control is simply an outrage. Abusers of international norms should not be the public face of the UN.” U.N. officials say Iran’s post is merely the result of an automatic rotation. But UN Watch rejected attempts to downplay what it described as “a fundamental conflict of interests” and “an act certain to be exploited by Iranian propaganda to legitimize the mullahs’ cruel regime.” |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Oh, That's funny. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-05-13 20:21 |
| #1 does this really surprise anyone? |
| Posted by: chris 2013-05-13 18:28 |