US envoy storms out of IAEA talks over Iran remarks
The United States Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) stormed out of a meeting on Wednesday after the Iranian ambassador to the organization
accused Israel of genocide.
Officials from
Canada and Australia also left the closed-door meeting of the
International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) 35-nation governing board
when Iran's Ali Asghar Soltanieh made his statement during a debate on
Syria, they said.
Soltanieh was not immediately available for
comment. Iran has often criticized Israeli policies towards the
Palestinians. It has also said Israel would be wiped "off the face of
the earth" if the Jewish state attacked it.
I don't understand how anyone can possibly believe that Iran can be stopped without the use of military force.
Labels: Ali Asghar Soltanieh, genocide, IAEA, Iranian nuclear threat
Heh....
Why is Iranian delegate to the IAEA Dr. Ali Asghar Soltanieh sitting in Israel's seat in the IAEA chamber?
More here.
Tehran forbids its diplomats to acknowledge Israel in any way and they are barred from mentioning it by name, let alone speak to any Israeli delegate at the United Nations, making Soltanieh's faux pas even more embarrassing for Iran.
"It's hard to imagine how the top Iranian diplomat, after serving more than six years as Tehran's envoy to the atomic agency, wound up in the Israeli seat without an alarm bell going off in his head," Lynch writes. "You'd think there was a protocol office within the Iranian foreign mission responsible for avoiding such a diplomatic faux pas. If not, maybe there will be from now on."
Heh.
Labels: Ali Asghar Soltanieh, IAEA
Bear, meet Honey
The
bear meets the honey at the IAEA in Vienna.
Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh assumed Group of 77 (G-77) presidency.
Soltanieh was elected as head of the organization in a ceremony held in the center of Vienna-based international organizations and attended by presidents and representatives of international organizations.
Soltanieh vowed to perform completely impartially during his presidency.
The Iranian ambassador replaced the Algerian ambassador to the IAEA as the outgoing chairman of the G-77.
Iran is to lead the group for one year.
The group was founded on June 15, 1964 by the "Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries," which was issued at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
The group's member states first met in Algiers in 1967, where the Charter of Algiers was adopted.
The organization was initially founded by 77 countries but it now includes 131 member states.
What could go wrong?
Labels: Ali Asghar Soltanieh, IAEA, Iran, nuclear disarmament
