De demonisering en uitsluiting van Israel lijkt steeds extremere vormen aan te nemen. De beweringen van de Nicaraguaanse voorzitter van de Algemene Vergadering stroken niet met de eerdere berichten.
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The Jerusalem Post
Dec 16, 2008 8:23 | Updated Dec 16, 2008 15:19
Dec 16, 2008 8:23 | Updated Dec 16, 2008 15:19
UNGA head accuses Israel of slander
By ALLISON HOFFMAN, JPOST CORRESPONDENT IN NY
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By ALLISON HOFFMAN, JPOST CORRESPONDENT IN NY
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A top UN official accused Israeli diplomats of slander Monday after a dispute last week over diplomatic protocol in which he allegedly tried to prevent Israel's envoy from giving a speech on human rights.
General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann issued a strongly worded statement calling the claim a "malicious and absolute lie" and suggesting that comments from Israeli officials to the press "could best be characterized as slander" and suggesting that "in any court of law this is a criminal act."
In a statement issued by his spokesman, Enrique Yeves, d¹Escoto also said he had received death threats on the Internet that were being investigated by "the pertinent authorities."
D¹Escoto said in the statement he planned to bring up the issue with the Israelis at a meeting scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Israeli Ambassador Gabriela Shalev responded by announcing she had canceled the meeting.
"The role of the President of the General Assembly should be to unite the international community and promote shared interests and values. However, since his first days as president of the General Assembly, Mr. D'Escoto has been divisive and controversial, abusing his position," Shalev said in a statement issued by her spokeswoman Mirit Cohen.
The war of words was the latest in a series of heated exchanges between the two in the press that began with Shalev calling d'Escoto an "Israel hater" in September, after he declined to castigate Iran¹s president for saying that Israel should be wiped off the map.
D'Escoto, a Nicaraguan diplomat and former Sandinista government minister who currently holds the one-year General Assembly presidency, subsequently said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that he "loved" Israel but more recently called for a boycott and divestment from the international community after comparing Israeli policies in Palestine to South African apartheid.
The furor bubbled over last week ahead of the 60th anniversary celebration of the UN's Declaration of Human Rights, at which Israel was scheduled to speak on behalf of the Western European regional group as its temporary chair. Shalev told the Post last week she suspected d'Escoto had initially decided not to schedule speeches from regional blocs in order to stop her from speaking.
D'Escoto fiercely denied that he had tried to silence Israel, saying in a statement that only high-level UN officials were initially slated to make addresses. European envoys intervened and urged him to include regional blocs, Shalev told the Post last week.
Shalev was ultimately invited to address the gathering, along with representatives from the Arab League and other nations.
General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann issued a strongly worded statement calling the claim a "malicious and absolute lie" and suggesting that comments from Israeli officials to the press "could best be characterized as slander" and suggesting that "in any court of law this is a criminal act."
In a statement issued by his spokesman, Enrique Yeves, d¹Escoto also said he had received death threats on the Internet that were being investigated by "the pertinent authorities."
D¹Escoto said in the statement he planned to bring up the issue with the Israelis at a meeting scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Israeli Ambassador Gabriela Shalev responded by announcing she had canceled the meeting.
"The role of the President of the General Assembly should be to unite the international community and promote shared interests and values. However, since his first days as president of the General Assembly, Mr. D'Escoto has been divisive and controversial, abusing his position," Shalev said in a statement issued by her spokeswoman Mirit Cohen.
The war of words was the latest in a series of heated exchanges between the two in the press that began with Shalev calling d'Escoto an "Israel hater" in September, after he declined to castigate Iran¹s president for saying that Israel should be wiped off the map.
D'Escoto, a Nicaraguan diplomat and former Sandinista government minister who currently holds the one-year General Assembly presidency, subsequently said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that he "loved" Israel but more recently called for a boycott and divestment from the international community after comparing Israeli policies in Palestine to South African apartheid.
The furor bubbled over last week ahead of the 60th anniversary celebration of the UN's Declaration of Human Rights, at which Israel was scheduled to speak on behalf of the Western European regional group as its temporary chair. Shalev told the Post last week she suspected d'Escoto had initially decided not to schedule speeches from regional blocs in order to stop her from speaking.
D'Escoto fiercely denied that he had tried to silence Israel, saying in a statement that only high-level UN officials were initially slated to make addresses. European envoys intervened and urged him to include regional blocs, Shalev told the Post last week.
Shalev was ultimately invited to address the gathering, along with representatives from the Arab League and other nations.
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