IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants a public debate with his US counterpart George W. Bush at the UN this month and a "global referendum" on who's right. Mr Ahmadinejad said he would be visiting Iran's arch-enemy the US for the third time to take part in the UN General Assembly next week."I proposed it last year. I will go to New York. Let's sit down and talk. But not behind closed doors.
"I propose discussing international questions at the UN General Assembly in order to solve them," he said. "Our aim is to solve global problems," he said.
"He (Bush) gives his position and I give mine. The representatives of 200 countries meet there and they can judge," he said.
Mr Ahmadinejad offered Mr Bush a public debate before he travelled to the United Nations last year, a proposal that was spurned by the White House which said the suggestion was not serious.
In the interview with Iran's international Jam-e Jam Farsi language channel, Mr Ahmadinejad also went one step further by mooting a "global referendum" to see who out of Iran and the US had the better ideas. "We will propose our solutions to solve the world questions and they (the Americans) can propose their solutions. We will organise a global referendum and the people can vote," he said. "The solution that wins the most votes will be applied."