FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2009 file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, dressed in flowing brown Bedouin robes, waves a copy of the U.N. Charter after appearing to tear it, saying he did not recognize the document's authority, as he addresses the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly. As the meeting place for all the worlds nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 12, 1960 file photo, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his desk at the United Nations with his fist during a General Assembly debate on colonialism at the UN. His wrist watch, on the desk in front of him, came off during his angry response, before he began using a shoe to pound the desk. As the meeting place for all the worlds nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2006 file photo, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez makes the sign of the cross during a fiery speech to the General Assemblyat at U.N. Headquarters. As the meeting place for all the worlds nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
FILE - In a Sept. 20, 1960 file photo, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, left, and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev hug at the United Nations. On Sept. 26, 1960, Castro denounced the United States in the longest timed speech ever in the U.N. General Assembly, 4 hours and 29 minutes. In the rambling speech, Castro defended Cuba's links to the Soviet Union, expressed serious concern that America's "imperialist government" might attack Cuba, and called U.S. President John F. Kennedy "an illiterate and ignorant millionaire." (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 1974 file photo, Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat clasps his arms over his head as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly. "I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun," he said. "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hands." As the meeting place for all the worlds nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
In this Sept. 27, 2012, file photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel uses a large, cartoonish diagram of a bomb to dramatize his claim that Iran was 70 percent of the way to enriching uranium for a nuclear weapon, during his address to the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York. As the meeting place for all the worlds nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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