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Focus on world's poor at General Assembly
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-19 19:25
Reflecting a widespread demand, Ludwig Scotty, president of the tiny Pacific
island nation of Nauru, called on wealthy nations to forgive foreign debts.
Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga said "it is unconscionable" to
let 6 million children die from malnutrition before their 5th birthday and to
have more than 50 percent of Africa's people suffer from diseases caused by
contaminated drinking water.
On the sidelines, top diplomats from the United States, Britain, France and
Germany met to discuss Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rejection of a
European offer of economic incentives in return for Tehran halting its uranium
enrichment program.
To prove that Iran has no intention to build nuclear weapons, Ahmadinejad
offered foreign countries and companies a role in Iran's nuclear fuel production
program. But British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in a BBC interview Sunday
called his speech "disappointing and unhelpful."
The possibility of referring Iran's nuclear ambitions to
the U.N. Security Council was certain to be raised at a meeting Monday of the
executive board of the U.N. nuclear agency in Vienna, Austria.
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