- US President George W. Bush said on Thursday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be given a US visa to attend the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York next month.

"We have an agreement with the United Nations to allow people to come to meet, and I suspect he (Ahmadinejad) will be here to meet at the United Nations," Bush said in a speech at his hometown Crawford, Texas.

However, the United States is still investigating allegations that the Iranian president took part in the 1979 hostage-taking at the US embassy in Teheran, Bush said.

Source: Xinhua