Also speaking at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Iran, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized the host government of Iran for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hostile words for Israel and denial of the Nazi Holocaust.

Ban Ki-moon: “As I have repeatedly stated around the world, I strongly reject threats by any member states to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust. Claiming that another U.N. member state — Israel — does not have the right to exist or describing it in racist terms is not only utterly wrong but undermines the very principles we have all pledged to uphold.”