Ban Iran's President from UN: Romney

Agence France Presse

September 17, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Monday called for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be banned from the UN General Assembly next week and indicted for genocide.

The former Massachusetts governor called on United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to revoke Ahmadinejad's invitation to the assembly and warned that absent strong action, Washington should reconsider support for the world body.

"I call on the United Nations to revoke any invitation to President Ahmadinejad to address the General Assembly," Romney wrote in a letter to Ban.

"If President Ahmadinejad sets foot in the United States, he should be handed an indictment under the Genocide Convention," Romney wrote.

"The United States and the world must take a strong stand against the terrorist Iranian regime and the time for action is now." Read More...