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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday. (Reuters)
Last update - 21:27 09/04/2008
Polish PM: Iran's comments on Israel annuls right to place in int'l community
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Poland, Iran, Israel 

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stressed on Wednesday that Poland stands alongside Israel on the issue of the threat posed by Iran, maintaining that Poland "has no doubt that Iran's words toward Israel cancels its right to a place in the international community."

Tusk emphasized his country's alliance with Israel with regard to Iran, saying that "if there are exceptions in Europe with regard to the Iran issue, it is definitely not Poland," speaking at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem.

He maintained that Poland will "continue following this matter; the European Union must take a firmer stance on this issue than it has done."
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This marks Tusk's first visit to Israel, and the first visit by a Polish leader in nearly a decade.

On Tuesday, Iranian state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying his country has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.

Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating in Natanz, and the new announcement is seen as a show of defiance of international demands to halt a nuclear program the U.S. and its allies say is aimed at building nuclear weapons. It also brings Iran one step closer to developing a critical mass of uranium needed to build an atomic bomb.

The president announced the start of the phase of installing 6,000 new centrifuges in Natanz, the television reported.

Ahmadinejad has sparked international outcry by referring to the Holocaust as a "myth" and calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map," among his verbal attacks on Israel.

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      1.   No more Polish kielbasa to Iran 20:28  |  Harold 09/04/08
      2.   Yeah, the evil Iranians again ... 22:11  |  Bob 09/04/08
      3.   Donald Tusk stop kissing ass. 23:31  |  Deborah 09/04/08
      4.   This ruins Mahmoud`s day. 00:05  |  ManintheMiddle 10/04/08
      5.   ManintheMiddle 01:13  |  ManOnTop 10/04/08
      6.   Should Have Left Poland Under Soviet Occupation 01:23  |  Mr. Know-it-All 10/04/08
      7.   ManintheMiddle 01:31  |  Oleg 10/04/08
      8.   GERMAN not Polish concentration camps!! 01:39  |  Jakub 10/04/08
      9.   To 4: GERMAN, not Polish concentration camps!! 01:49  |  Jakub 10/04/08
      10.   Maninthemiddle...the Iranians don`t have to kill 01:53  |  Lynn 10/04/08
      11.   #3 Deborah. Stop sticking up for craven genocidists. 02:03  |  Chaim 10/04/08
      12.   #2 Bob 02:16  |  Panther Jet 10/04/08
      13.   to # 2 BOB 02:20  |  dan 10/04/08
      14.   to 4, maninthemiddle 02:23  |  dan 10/04/08
      15.   # 1 Contrary to your simplistic post showing your depts of 02:29  |  Max Zinger,P.Chimist 10/04/08
      16.   #4 Manin - Now and then 02:54  |  Slibovitz 10/04/08
      17.   ManintheMiddle, typically ,"luke-warm!" 03:14  |  Akiva P 10/04/08
      18.   Funny guy. 04:23  |  Paulo 10/04/08
      19.   Tusk is merely trying to assert himself as foreign policy leader 04:35  |  Brzeczyszczykiewicz 10/04/08
      20.   israeli`s go back to poland/europe 05:15  |  sam i am 10/04/08
      21.   iran isn`t occupying europe/poland 05:17  |  sam i am 10/04/08
      22.   To Bob (#2): Provocative weather 05:31  |  Morris Valentine 10/04/08
      23.   Polish PM is a dog for Pres Bush. But, when Obama becomes 05:34  |  Aounist 10/04/08
      24.   With these friends Jews need no enemies 06:07  |  Free 10/04/08
      25.   Iran, the biggest danger to the Middle East and to the world. 08:45  |  Jean Van Daem 10/04/08
      26.   Reconcilliation would be much easier 11:21  |  sweis Melbourne 10/04/08
      27.   @ 5 Maninthemiddle 11:56  |  michal 10/04/08
      28.   Donald Tusk , Polish gays and israel 18:59  |  Yaakov Sullivan 10/04/08
      29.   What did Ahmadinejad really say? 20:31  |  Anon 10/04/08
      30.   Zionism to be "wiped off the map" - not Israel 07:11  |  Jim 11/04/08
      31.   TO # 30 jim 20:55  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 15/04/08
      32.   PM Tusk - Support for Israel to exist 06:04  |  Reid 16/04/08
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