TEHRAN -– Over two hundred Iranian lawmakers issued a statement on Tuesday in support of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the United Nations conference on racism in Geneva.

The 210 MPs also condemned the efforts to interrupt the president’s speech by a few attendees planted by Israel.
Addressing the conference, Ahmadinejad proposed that the veto power of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council should be immediately abolished. He also urged all the free nations of the world to make relentless efforts for uprooting the curse of Zionism.
However, delegates from at least 30 countries walked out in protest right after the Iranian president started his speech at the event.
Part of the lawmakers’ statement reads, “Durban II is held at a time that the human community has not forgotten the Zionist regime’s genocide and the massacre of women and children in the Gaza. Unfortunately, the president of the United States who has taken office with the change motto, and the international organizations such as the United Nations Security Council has undertaken no preventive measures in face of these crimes.”
The statement adds, “Under such circumstances, a man from the Islamic and revolutionary Iran… has attended the conference and has uncovered the appalling face of the modern criminals including the Zionist regime and its supporters. We, as representatives of the Iranian nation in the Majlis, announce our all-out support for the firm and committed stance of the president.”
Durban II, the first UN conference in eight years to address the issue of racism, opened on Monday and runs until April 24. The United States, Israel, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Poland, and New Zealand have boycotted the conference.