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Wed, 09/21/2011 - 13:38
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President Ahmadinejad Calls US Statesmen "Weakest in World"
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is in New York to attend the 66th UN General Assembly meeting, lashed out at the US administration officials for their weakness in removing even minor problems.
"No one in the world is weaker and more unwise than the US statesmen," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with leading American anti-war activists on his first day in New York.
President Ahmadinejad said that the US that was once an invincible power in the minds of the world nations 30 years ago has now reached a point that it is even unable to solve its smallest problems.
He pointed to the continued conflict between Palestinians and the Zionist regime of Israel, and said that Washington's inability to find a solution to the issue of Palestine during the last 60 years is a clear example of the US weakness.
Washington is standing like a fortified wall blocking the entry of Palestine to the United Nations.
After years of stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the Palestinian Authority has now turned to the United Nations in a bid to improve its diplomatic and legal standing vis-à-vis Israel.
Palestine currently has "observer" status at the UN and is seeking an elevated status within the organization by obtaining recognition as a "state" through a Security Council resolution, which the United States has pledged to veto, or by pursuing nonmember observer state status through the General Assembly.
Almost two-thirds of the UN's member states - representing more than 75% of the world's population - already formally recognize the Palestinian state in some form.
Head of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas is pressing forward with plans to formally request UN membership this Friday, despite a US pledge to veto the membership bid. Raising Palestine to full statehood would need to pass the UN Security Council - where it is subject to veto - and then a vote at the general assembly, comprising all 193 UN member states.
However, certain members of the UN at the general assembly make attempts to raise Palestine's status from "permanent observer" to "non-member observer state", a largely symbolic vote, without Security Council approval in stead of granting a member state status to Palestine.
"No one in the world is weaker and more unwise than the US statesmen," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with leading American anti-war activists on his first day in New York.
President Ahmadinejad said that the US that was once an invincible power in the minds of the world nations 30 years ago has now reached a point that it is even unable to solve its smallest problems.
He pointed to the continued conflict between Palestinians and the Zionist regime of Israel, and said that Washington's inability to find a solution to the issue of Palestine during the last 60 years is a clear example of the US weakness.
Washington is standing like a fortified wall blocking the entry of Palestine to the United Nations.
After years of stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the Palestinian Authority has now turned to the United Nations in a bid to improve its diplomatic and legal standing vis-à-vis Israel.
Palestine currently has "observer" status at the UN and is seeking an elevated status within the organization by obtaining recognition as a "state" through a Security Council resolution, which the United States has pledged to veto, or by pursuing nonmember observer state status through the General Assembly.
Almost two-thirds of the UN's member states - representing more than 75% of the world's population - already formally recognize the Palestinian state in some form.
Head of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas is pressing forward with plans to formally request UN membership this Friday, despite a US pledge to veto the membership bid. Raising Palestine to full statehood would need to pass the UN Security Council - where it is subject to veto - and then a vote at the general assembly, comprising all 193 UN member states.
However, certain members of the UN at the general assembly make attempts to raise Palestine's status from "permanent observer" to "non-member observer state", a largely symbolic vote, without Security Council approval in stead of granting a member state status to Palestine.
