The explosion caused the destruction of the AMIA building and damaged neighbouring structures as well.

The Argentine government claims that the agreement will unblock the investigation of the suspects in the attack on the AMIA. But the memorandum does no such thing.

Shortly before 10 a.m. local time, a bomb weighing at least 300 kilograms exploded at the Argentine Jewish community apos s office building (AMIA) in Buenos Aires.

The AMIA building housed the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association, a social service organization, and the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations, the umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Argentina.

Initial findings indicate that the same organization was responsible for both the bombing of the AMIA building and the bombing of the Israeli Embassy at Buenos Aires just over two years ago.

Although Iran has never publicly claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks on the AMIA building and on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, the investigations into both incidents have pointed clearly to Iranian involvement.

Some years ago, after a complicated investigation, Argentine investigators identified several members of the Iranian government as the main suspects behind the attack on the AMIA. Iran has always denied responsibility and strongly opposed any criminal investigation of the suspects.

In a typewritten Arabic statement released in the Lebanese cities of Sidon and Beirut on Friday, 22 July 1994, a radical fundamentalist group calling itself Ansarallah, or Partisans of God, claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on the AMIA building.

Without listing all cities that have been victims of terrorism, as the representative of the United States has done, we wish to recall that 11 years ago, in 1994, Buenos Aires too was a victim of international terrorism, when the AMIA building was bombed, killing some 100 individuals.