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Canada, key allies storm out of UN nuclear meeting in protest of Iran’s ‘Israeli genocide’ remarks

Mike Blanchfield, Canadian Press | 13/03/07 9:07 AM ET

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OTTAWA — Canada and key allies stormed out of a meeting of the United Nations nuclear agency Wednesday to protest the Iranian representative referring to an Israeli “genocide.”

Envoys from the United States, Australia and New Zealand joined John Barrett, Canada’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, in unceremoniously exiting the room.

Barrett was chairing a meeting of the 35-nation IAEA board at its Vienna headquarters when Iran’s representative, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, went on a lengthy tirade about Israel that included an accusation that it had “a dark record of genocide,” sources said.

“That’s just a red line for us. We stood up and walked out,” said a Canadian official who was not authorized to talk on the record about the incident.

via Canada storms out of UN meeting after Iran’s ‘Israeli genocide’ remark | Canada | News | National Post.

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