Ahmadinejad Gets Another Visa
Charles Johnson
Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 7:38 pm PDT • Views: 251
As we noted Friday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is coming to the US. Apparently, we aren’t finished pretending he’s not our enemy. US grants Ahmadinejad visa for address to UN Security Council.
As host of the United Nations, the United States is obligated to allow foreign leaders to speak before the world body barring extraordinary circumstances.
“We have host country obligations and we are going to live up those host country obligations,” McCormack said.
The date of Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York has not yet been finalized, but McCormack said Washington hoped the Iranian leader would use the occasion to pull back from Iran’s defiant refusal to negotiate over its nuclear program.
“It would be an important moment for President Ahmadinejad in his address to the Security Council to take the opportunity to say: ‘We are going to negotiate, we do not seek confrontation, we seek dialogue.’”
Hope springs eternal.
Frank says: