US Secretary of State calls for special Iran talks; UN envoy urges for condemnation of terrorism.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFrice un security council 224 88 ap(photo credit: AP)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday denounced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for calling for Israel to be wiped off the map and said America would ask the UN Security Council to take up the threat to the existence of a UN member nation.
On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel before the UN General Assembly, saying "the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse, and there is no way for it to get out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters."
"I do not believe that the Iranian people as a whole hold these views," Rice told the Council on Friday, "but their president has said that another member of this body, the United Nations, should be wiped from the face of the map, should be destroyed, and should not exist.
"That is simply unacceptable," she told the Security Council.
"And when this Council decides what really needs to be taken up as a threat to international peace and security, that, to me, makes the top of the list," she said.
"The United States of America will be asking that the Council convene again to take up the matter of one member of the United Nations calling for the destruction of another member of the United Nations, in a way that simply should not be allowed, if you will pardon my saying so in polite company."
Rice was speaking at a Council meeting called at the request of Arab states to deal with the sole issue of Israeli settlement-building in Palestinian territory.
The new Israeli UN ambassador, Gabriela Shalev, also urged the Council to "condemn terrorism and incitement. You must reject extremism, such as Iranian President Ahmadinejad's toxic anti-Israel and anti-Semitic provocations."
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