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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to attend the summit of Non-Aligned Movement countries in the Cuban capital Havana in mid-September, an official said Wednesday.

“The president will take part in the summit of Non-Aligned countries in Havana,” said the official from the president’s office, who asked not to be named.

The summit of the 116-nation grouping is to take place between September 11-16, and Ahmadinejad is also expected to attend the UN General Assembly in New York that starts on September 12, the official said.

There was no indication as to when Ahmadinejad would be arriving in Havana and New York.

Flashback a few days ago Iran stated that the U.N. should relocate away from NYC.

(Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04)– Iran suggested on Monday that the United Nations headquarters be relocated from New York to a country other than the United States.

“The U.S. tries to pressure Iran in any way possible. We are convinced that considerations should be made regarding the United Nations which is based in this country”, government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told reporters during his weekly press conference.

“Either the UN must be relocated from the U.S. and set up in a different country or the U.S.’s provisions in this regard must be limited so that the UN plays a more serious role”, Elham said

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Ahmadinejad said in Tehran Wednesday that his attendance of the UN General Assembly would be a “suitable opportunity” to challenge Bush in a television debate.

“My forthcoming visit to New York for the UN General Assembly would be a suitable opportunity to hold the debate and all world people, especially the Americans, could hear and watch it without censorship,” the news agency ISNA quoted the Iranian president as saying in a cabinet session.

More quotes from President Ahmadinejad

(The Peninsula Online) “I hope that the Americans will not hide from such a debate which is the best way to create peace,” Ahmadinejad said in a statement. “We are ready to make suggestions to help the world better to install justice, calm, wellbeing, peace, friendship and kindness and destroy the climate of violence, threats and bad humour,” he added.

In a fiercely religious speech to a conference in Tehran, Ahmadinejad had earlier said Bush was “nothing” compared to God and was struggling against a current that was inexorably taking the world towards divinity. “I am telling him (Bush) that all the world is threatening you since the general path that the world is taking is towards worshipping God and divinity,” Ahmadinejad said.