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President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann (Reuters)
Last update - 08:53 04/10/2008
UN General Assembly chief: Some Security Council members worse than Iran
By Reuters
Tags: Israel News, Security Council 

Some members of the United Nations Security Council have done things "infinitely worse" than Iran, which is seeking a seat on the council, the president of the UN General Assembly said on Friday.

Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, who was foreign minister in the left-wing Sandinista government that ruled Nicaragua from 1979-1990, was asked whether he thought Iran should be on the 15-nation Security Council when the country is under UN sanctions over its nuclear program.

"There are members of the Security Council right now who have done things infinitely worse than Iran could ever do," D'Escoto told a news conference.
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When asked who he was referring to, D'Escoto, who has a history of criticizing U.S. administrations, quoted a Spanish saying: "For those who have the power of understanding, you need only a few words."

The United States supported Nicaragua's right-wing Contra rebels against the Sandinistas in the early 1980s, first openly and later covertly after the U.S. Congress withdrew its approval.

A reporter asked D'Escoto what could be worse than saying that Israel, a UN member, should be wiped off the map, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said.

"Verbally there's hardly anything that could be worse" than Ahmadinejad's comments, D'Escoto said.

"Verbally. But the world is not destroyed by words but by actions ... I put more importance to deeds than words," he said.

"To say that is one thing and to commit crimes against the sovereign rights and independence of another country is something else ... I think we all have to agree that no one dies because of words."

The Security Council has passed three rounds of sanctions on Iran because of its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, which Western nations fear is aimed at making a nuclear bomb. Tehran says it is pursuing only civilian nuclear power and that it has a right to enrich uranium.

In a General Assembly election on Oct. 17, Iran will be running against Japan for a non-permanent Asian seat on the Security Council that falls vacant at the end of the year. Japan is widely expected to win the seat and a two-year term on the council.

The United States, China, Britain, France and Russia are the only permanent members of the Security Council, with the power of a veto.

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