Sunday, March 27, 2005

Khatami at UNESCO-sponsored Meetign

Aljazeera.com article:

"The Iranian President Mohamed Khatami warned all governments and nations on Saturday against the production and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the official IRNA news agency reported.

"'Today, the world is seriously threatened by the production, proliferation and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction,' Khatami was quoted as saying in a speech delivered to the first international conference on bioethics, which opened Saturday, and was attended by some 600 professors, researchers and scientists from 18 countries......

"The conference is co-sponsored by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and the Health Ministry as well as the National Genetics Engineering, Biology and Technology Research Center, and Tehran University's Ethics and Medical History Research Organization."

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