Ahmadinejad slams world unilateralism

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized world unilateralism, calling for the joint management of world affairs and the involvement of all nations.

Addressing American students and academics via a video conference from New York on Tuesday, the Iranian chief executive said the world can not be run through a monopoly on the management of world affairs.

“Some certain states are calling themselves a world manager and consider themselves to be the ruler, the possessor of the world. These countries consider themselves above other states and do not respect the rights of other nations. They wage wars and occupy lands by the virtue of various excuses. Accepting their rule of the world means accepting the world’s current conditions and problems,” President Ahmadinejad said.

“The world can’t be run by unilateralism and monopoly any longer. It is not acceptable to see that a select group of governments and countries consider themselves superior and prevent others from the world management,” he added.

The Iranian president called for joint management of global affairs by all countries of the world, saying the partnership of all countries and governments would leave no place for war and discrimination.

He further criticized the possessors of nuclear weapons for classifying nuclear energy in the same category as an atomic bomb, which he said was aimed at protecting their nuclear weapons monopoly.

“The Iranian nation believes that no country can use nuclear weapons; a nuclear weapon is the ugliest and harshest thing that mankind can possess,” the Iranian president went on to say.

During his speech at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit on Tuesday, President Ahmadinejad also called for the second decade of the millennium to be named “’The Joint Management of World Affairs by the United Nations.”