(IRNA, 16 October 2000)
Tehran, Oct 16, IRNA -- Iranian university students on Monday called on United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to support Palestinians and condemn the Zionist regime's crimes. In a letter delivered to United Nations Representative Office in Tehran, the students asked several questions from the secretary general. "Do you think the people who stage demonstration to restore their trampled rights and are being subject to heavy military attacks from the air, ground and the sea are not human being and have not the right to live on the earth?" the letter asked Kofi Annan.
"Which statement from the Human Rights groups can justify shooting to kill the demonstrators who throw stones to display their protest against continued occupation of their lands?" The letter said the world conscience is aware and shows its protests against Israel and its supporter, the U.S. by holding worldwide demonstrations. Is not the time now for the United Nations to comply with the world's public opinion?, it said.
"What the students of Iranian universities expect from you is that, as a dignitary, support the Palestinian nation and condemn the Zionist regime as a step to free the United Nations from the hegemony of the superpowers," the letter said. The students criticized the U.N. secretary-general for focusing his mission to the region on three Israeli soldiers kidnapped in Southern Lebanon rather than the Zionist regime's violent military action against civilian demonstrators in Holy Qods, al-Khalil and other occupied territories of Palestine since September 28, the day on which the Zionist convicted war criminal Ariel Sharon made a publicized visit to holy Qods. SS/AH/RR End ::irna 16/10/2000 19:27