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N.Y. Mayor Urges UN To Fight Terror
Monday, October 01, 2001
By Edith M. Lederer / The Associated Press

The meeting is the first global forum on terrorism since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, which claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people from over 60 countries.

UNITED NATIONS -- AP
Stepping onto the world stage, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged the United Nations on Monday to hold accountable and ostracize any nation that supports terrorism.

"Unanimously, we must say we will not give in to terrorism," Giuliani said in an impassioned speech before the start of a weeklong U.N. debate on international terrorism that will hear the views of more than 150 countries.

If the world's nations do not stand together in the fight against terrorism, the mayor said, the terrorists will succeed in destroying freedom, democracy and the underlying principles of the United Nations itself.

"This is not a time further study or vague directives," he said. "The evidence of terrorism, brutality and inhumanity, is lying beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center less than two miles from where we meet today."
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