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Obama Administration Rebukes UN Official for Attacks on U.S. and Israel
[Washington Post] Colum Lynch - The Obama administration scolded the president of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, saying that his frequent public attacks against the U.S. and Israel are undercutting the standing of the world body. The rebuke comes one day after Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann lashed out at the U.S. during a visit to Tehran, where he defended Iran's nuclear program as peaceful. Alejandro Wolff, the second-ranking U.S. diplomat at the UN, said d'Escoto, the former Nicaraguan Sandinista foreign minister, "has repeatedly abused his position to pursue his personal agenda, and in doing so he diminishes the office and harms the General Assembly." Mark Kornblau, a U.S. spokesman, said d'Escoto "seems like he is lost in some kind of time warp." D'Escoto has said Israel should be targeted with a boycott because of its military offensive in Gaza.