U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called on Iran to work with the United States to draw a “road map” for normalizing relations between the two countries. In a speech to the Asia Society in New York, Albright called on Iran to end its support for terrorism, improve its human rights policy and prove that it is not seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction. Albright also acknowledged Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s public statements of support for Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat over more radical leaders from Hamas as well as Khatami’s January condemnation of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. Meanwhile, an Iranian official, speaking to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, called upon Israel to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
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