MaximsNewsNetwork: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, HUGO CHAVEZ, PAULA KAGAME,

MaximsNewsNetwork: 24 September 2009 - UNTV: United Nations: The 64th UN General Debate continues including: Rwanda, Spain, Israel, Japan and Venezuela. World leaders continued today (24 September) addressing the annual high-level segment of the 64th General Assembly plenary, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Rwandan President Paula Kagame, told delegates that African leaders were are making progress in key areas, and gave the example of the upcoming inauguration next January of the East African Common Market, constituted to facilitate greater trade, investment and free movement of almost one hundred and thirty million people. Kagame said that he believed that there was no better mitigation strategy to economic difficulties than building larger regional markets.

In rebuttal of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust, Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented to the General Assembly historical Nazi-era documents on the extermination of Jews, which the German government had provided him with. He exhorted the United Nations to ensure that Iran, whose leader he described as a Holocaust denier, never acquired nuclear weapons.

The greatest threat to the world today, Netanyahu said, was the marriage between religious fanaticism and the weapons of mass destruction. He added that the most pressing challenge for the UN was to prevent the tyrants of Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Venezuelas leader President Hugo Chavez told delegates at the General Assembly that he smelled hope not sulfur, reminding delegates of his comment following President George W. Bush presentation when he last addressed the world body in 2006. "It doesn't smell of sulfur. It's gone. It smells of something else. It smells of hope and you have hope in your heart," Chavez said.

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