The United Nations refused a request to move the start of the U.N.’s General Assembly from the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. In a response to the American Jewish Congress, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that only the General Assembly itself could revise the Sept. 20 date. Annan also apologized for any “discomfort that the decision of the General Assembly may have caused you and members of the Jewish faith around the world.”
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