Symposium on Iranian President Ahmadinejad Print E-mail
Written by Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jerusalem Center for Public   
Wednesday, 13 December 2006

International symposium of legal and diplomatic experts call on the United Nations to bring President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to justice for incitement to genocide in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention.

Prominent international law experts, diplomats, and other leaders met on Thursday, December 14, 2006 for a special symposium convened by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs to discuss legal options for bringing President Ahmadinejad of Iran to justice for incitement to genocide. Addressing a standing-room only crowd of over 200 people at the offices of the New York County Lawyers' Association, a number of significant recommendations were presented in the first major international effort to prosecute President Ahmadinejad for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention provisions of the UN Charter and other international conventions.

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