UANI Calls on The Millennium Hotel to Refuse to Host President Ahmadinejad
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May 2, 2010
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UANI Calls on The Millennium Hotel to Refuse to Host President Ahmadinejad
New York, NY - United Against Nuclear Iran
(UANI) today called on the Millennium hotel to immediately clarify and
reconsider its decision to serve as the official host hotel to
President
Ahmadinejad during his stay in New York and instead decline to
host
President Ahmadinejad.
In a letter to the Richard Hartman, the CEO of Millennium &
Copthorne
Hotels Plc and to Wanda Chan the General Manager to the Millennium,
UANI
President Ambassador Mark D. Wallace wrote:
President Ahmadinejad is the leader of a criminal regime
that flouts international law in developing an illegal nuclear weapon,
and
brutally represses its own people. President Ahmadinejad
leads a regime
that is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. Just
recently
President Ahmadinejad called the tragic events of September 11, 2001 a
"big lie".
Simply put it is an outrageous affront to the people of New York City
that you
would host this man and his delegation. All New
Yorkers should
reject your hotel if you host this illegitimate 9/11 denying regime.
UANI denounces in the strongest possible terms any decision by the
Millennium
to host President Ahmadinejad and the Iranian delegation in New York
and calls
upon the Millennium to join the international community in isolating
Iran and
condemning the Iranian regime by refusing to host Mr. Ahmadinejad.
If the Millennium continues with its plans to serve as a host to
President
Ahmadinejad, UANI will take action against the Millennium.
UANI will call
on its activists to peacefully protest your properties, and will call
for a
general public boycott of all Millennium, Grand Millennium, Copthorne,
Kingsgate and City Development Limited properties.
The Millennium's decision to potentially host President Ahmadinejad is
directly
contrary to the other New York Hotels and venues that have refused to
host this
regime including The Helmsley Hotel, Gotham Hall, and The Essex
House. If
it continues with its decision to host the Iranian regime, the
Millennium Hotel
will be putting its short-term profit ahead of its responsible role in
the New
York hotel community.
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