Second Day of UN Debate Focused on Anti-terror, Middle East

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Second Day of UN Debate Focused on Anti-terror, Middle East

As the UN General Assembly wrapped up the second day of its high-level debate, the issues of anti-terrorism and the situation in the Middle East were raised bysome speakers during Friday's debate.

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As the UN General Assembly wrapped up the second day of its high-level debate, the issues of anti-terrorism and the situation in the Middle East were raised bysome speakers during Friday's debate.

Addressing world leaders gathering for the annual UN high-level debate opened here Thursday, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said that condemnation of terrorism in all its forms needed to be accompanied by a denunciation of the causes of terror.

The causes of terrorism had made the world "a kingdom of injustice, poverty and inequality," the president noted.

"The only path to peace was through justice," he said, "the world's leaders must resolve to acknowledge that the current economic situation acted as fuel for the fires of terrorism."

Igor Ivanov, foreign minister of the Russian Federation, noted that the priority task in combating terrorism consisted of strengthening the international legal framework by securing a genuine universal character of the existing anti-terrorist treaties.

He said the Russian Federation was concerned over the absence of real progress in negotiating a comprehensive convention on combating terrorism as well as a treaty to suppress acts of nuclear terrorism.

Differences between countries were quite "reconcilable" and should not overshadow the task of laying a legal basis for counteracting terrorism in all its manifestations, he said.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Sayed said the Palestinian people continued to suffer under an oppressive occupation that adhered to policies reminiscent of the ages of darkness and chaos.

"If Israel had a genuine desire for peace, it must stop its aggression against the Palestinian people and agree to withdraw from all Arab territories occupied in 1967 in Palestine, Syria andLebanon," he said.

He noted that the discussion on peace and security in the Middle East also related to the situation in Iraq, which must be dealt with in the context of the United Nations Security Council resolutions.

He affirmed Egypt's rejection of inflicting military strikes against Iraq, but said the country must respect the legitimate will of the international community.

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