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Article: 2nd Lead: Iranian president asks to address UN Security Council
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 15, 2007
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2nd Lead: Iranian president asks to address UN Security Council
UNITED NATIONS, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has formally asked to address a UN Security Council
meeting to defend his country's nuclear program, the council's
president said on Thursday.
Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo of South Africa, president of the UN
Security Council for March, said the council has received a letter
from Iranian Ambassador Javad Zarif that Ahmadinejad "wishes to
attend and address the Security Council meeting in which actions
might be taken about a draft resolution about Iran's peaceful nuclear
program."
The Iranian request was made in accordance with Article 32 of the
UN ...