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    ARMENIAN DELGATION WALKS OUT ON AHMADINEJAD SPEECH IN GENEVA

    Diaspora politics
    http://hetq.am/en/politics/8082/
    2009/04/21 | 12:22

    According to an April 20 article in the Guardian News the Armenian
    delegation in Geneva to attend a major United Nations conference on
    racism walked out on a speech being delivered by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
    President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    Several minutes into his speech President Ahmadinejad stated,
    "Following world war two, [powerful countries] resorted to military
    aggression to make an entire nation homeless, on the pretext of Jewish
    suffering and the ambiguous and dubious question of the Holocaust
    ... and they helped bring to power the most cruel and repressive
    racists in Palestine."

    It was at that point that the European delegates in the chamber,
    along with the Armenians and the St Kitts delegation, rose in unison
    and walked out.

    President Ahmadinejad's presence at the conference was controversial
    from the start and the U.S. and Israel led a boycott followed
    by Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and
    Poland. Britain, France and other EU nations decided to attend but
    were ready, with their "shoes on" as one British official put it,
    to walk out if Ahmadinejad's speech proved offensive.
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