Ahmadinejad lashes out at G8 summit
Iranian President has lashed out at G8 leaders and rejected calls for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment.
By Agencies |
TOYKO: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at Group of Eight leaders and rejected calls for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, in a letter to a Japanese newspaper published Tuesday.
Ahmadinejad sent a letter to the Yomiuri Shimbun to mark the annual G8 summit, which began Monday in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, drawing leaders including US President George W Bush and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
"They (the G8 leaders) may imagine that they can maintain the orderly establishment and get rid of their own problems without paying attention to others' benefit or dignity," Ahmadinejad said in the letter.
"But such an attitude has ended in failure again and again and it's as if they were walking faster on the road to an abrupt cliff," Ahmadinejad said.
The looming end of a single superpower world entered around the United States after World War II is apparent to all countries, the Iranian president said.
"If they are worried about (the future) of human beings, they have to accept the change and straighten themselves," he added.
In the letter, he rejected the latest offer from six world powers aimed at ending a standoff over its contested nuclear programme which has raised fears of regional conflict and sent oil prices spiralling.
"We are not going to accept any ilegitimate demand," he wrote.
The new offer holds out a package of technological and economic incentives in return for Iran suspending its uranium enrichment activities -- a process the West fears the Islamic republic might use to make an atomic bomb.
A statement of the G8 leaders to be released as early as Tuesday is expected to include strong calls for Iran to suspend uranium enrichemnt, sources said.
Last month, G8 foreign ministers said in a statement they "strongly urge" Iran to cooperate fully with the UN International Atomic Energy Agency and "act in a more responsible and constructive manner in the region."
Ahmadinejad sent a letter to the Yomiuri Shimbun to mark the annual G8 summit, which began Monday in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, drawing leaders including US President George W Bush and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
"They (the G8 leaders) may imagine that they can maintain the orderly establishment and get rid of their own problems without paying attention to others' benefit or dignity," Ahmadinejad said in the letter.
"But such an attitude has ended in failure again and again and it's as if they were walking faster on the road to an abrupt cliff," Ahmadinejad said.
The looming end of a single superpower world entered around the United States after World War II is apparent to all countries, the Iranian president said.
"If they are worried about (the future) of human beings, they have to accept the change and straighten themselves," he added.
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In the letter, he rejected the latest offer from six world powers aimed at ending a standoff over its contested nuclear programme which has raised fears of regional conflict and sent oil prices spiralling.
"We are not going to accept any ilegitimate demand," he wrote.
The new offer holds out a package of technological and economic incentives in return for Iran suspending its uranium enrichment activities -- a process the West fears the Islamic republic might use to make an atomic bomb.
A statement of the G8 leaders to be released as early as Tuesday is expected to include strong calls for Iran to suspend uranium enrichemnt, sources said.
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Last month, G8 foreign ministers said in a statement they "strongly urge" Iran to cooperate fully with the UN International Atomic Energy Agency and "act in a more responsible and constructive manner in the region."
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