Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Iran Makes You Walk it Out
After a controversial remark by Iran leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an envoy of European leaders packed their belongings and walked out of the UN anti-racism conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ahmadinejad accused the West of making "an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering ... in order to establish a totally racist government in occupied Palestine."
US Secretary General, Ban-Ki Moon, stated, "This is the opposite of what this conference seeks to achieve. This makes it significantly more difficult to build constructive solutions to the very real problem of racism."
Click here for the full story, covered on CNN
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