TEHRAN Oh, brother! a United Nations interpreter was in hot water after he lost his place in a speech and uttered an obscenity heard by assembled heads of state at the UN Millennium Summit.
The flustered English-language interpreter made the embarrassing error after pausing for a long moment during a speech in Arabic by Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
"We in Sudan shall spare no effort to achieve these noble goals and to cooperate with all member states on the basis of the principles of ..... oh f***," the interpreter exclaimed.
A UN official said he would listen to the tape of the translation.
"If anything not proper has been said, we will take action," added the official.