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| Over 100 countries reaffirm Durban I Israel condemnation |
| 2009-04-22 |
| [Jerusalem Post Front Page] Over 100 other countries on Tuesday approved a 16-page declaration calling on the world to combat intolerance. The declaration did not mention Israel, but among dozens of other points, it reaffirms a 2001 statement issued after the UN's first global racism meeting in South Africa that recognized the "plight of the Palestinians" while affirming the Jewish state's right to security. The latest declaration's support of the 2001 document that named only one country, Israel, was cited by President Barack Obama's administration as why it boycotted the Geneva meeting. Earlier Tuesday, the UN said Tuesday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had actually dropped language from his speech on Monday at the conference that described the Holocaust as "ambiguous and dubious." The UN and the Iranian Mission in Geneva did not comment on why the change was made. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, however, said he had met with the Iranian president before his speech Monday and reminded him the UN had adopted resolutions "to revoke the equation of Zionism with racism and to reaffirm the historical facts of the Holocaust." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 That's a 100 countries that shouldn't be allowed self-rule. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-04-22 08:24 |
| #1 makes you what, ???????????????????????????????????????? |
| Posted by: newc 2009-04-22 03:02 |