21.08.2012                      03.Elul. 5772

Teheran:

US: Ban, Morsy should not attend NAM conference in Tehran

State Department spokeswoman Nuland says Iran undeserving of high-level delegations from Egypt, UN; adds Tehran trying to use Non-Aligned Movement summit to manipulate attendees, skirt obligations to UNSC, IAEA.

The United States is against high-level diplomatic visits to Iran by Egyptian and UN officials, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Monday. Nuland was responding to a press inquiry that specifically mentioned a yet unconfirmed visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a confirmed visit by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy to attend the Non-Aligned Movement meetings towards the end of August….