Iran's Ahmadinejad to attend UN assembly in New York

Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Saturday September 2, 2006

Tehran- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit New York this month to attend the United Nations General Assembly, state television IRIB reported Saturday. In an interview with IRIB, Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki confirmed that Ahmadinejad will visit the UN General Assembly and delivery a speech in front of the assembly.

This would be the second visit by Ahmadinejad to the United States since taking office in August 2005. In September 2005, he was at UN headquarters in New York to speak to the General Assembly.

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