Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran:

(a)

calling for the destruction of the State of Israel;

(b)

warning any Muslim who supports Israel that they will burn in the Umma of Islam; and

(c)

denying Nazi genocide against the Jews of Europe and demonising Jews;

(2)

calls on the Australian Government, Australia being a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to:

(a)

refer the incitements to genocide by President Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders to the appropriate agencies of the United Nations for account;

(b)

initiate in the International Court of Justice an inter-state complaint against Iran for its criminal violation of the Genocide Convention; and

(c)

urge the United Nations to act against Iran’s threats to eliminate the State of Israel;

(3)

affirms the principle that no country should be allowed to call for the elimination of another; and

(4)

condemns the incitements to genocide by President Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders.

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