US, Israel, Canada Won't Attend Anti-Racism Conference
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28/02/2009 US President Barack Hussein Obama’s administration has decided not to participate in a UN conference against racism dubbed 'Durban 2', which is scheduled to take place in Switzerland in April. A senior US official said the White House would announce its intention soon.
The US administration sent two representatives to Geneva last week, where negotiations on a document leading the event were taking place. The administration hoped it would succeed in getting anti-Israeli references dropped from the document, which characterizes Israel as a racist and occupying nation. Israel had asked US Secretary of State to form a “joint front against anti-Semitism”.
In choosing to withdraw participation from the conference the US is following the lead of Israel and Canada, and a number of European countries are currently awaiting an official statement from the White House in order to declare their refusal to participate as well.
Among those awaiting an official statement Friday were Australia, Holland, Denmark, and Britain.
The first conference in Durban, South Africa was littered with anti-Semitic sentiment and declared Israel one of the racist states in the world. The Bush administration chose not to participate in the first conference but Obama decided to attempt discourse in order to try to change the final wording of the document set to emerge from the conference.
The US was hoping that the declarations made in Durban in 2001 would be stricken from the record and another document prepared, from which criticism against Israel and the period of slavery in the US would be absent.
However Obama's representatives were unsuccessful in imposing change, and the 100 clauses in the document still include many references to Israel.
The document currently includes a passage rendering any criticism against Islam a criminal act.
Readers Number : 30
28/02/2009 US President Barack Hussein Obama’s administration has decided not to participate in a UN conference against racism dubbed 'Durban 2', which is scheduled to take place in Switzerland in April. A senior US official said the White House would announce its intention soon.
The US administration sent two representatives to Geneva last week, where negotiations on a document leading the event were taking place. The administration hoped it would succeed in getting anti-Israeli references dropped from the document, which characterizes Israel as a racist and occupying nation. Israel had asked US Secretary of State to form a “joint front against anti-Semitism”.
In choosing to withdraw participation from the conference the US is following the lead of Israel and Canada, and a number of European countries are currently awaiting an official statement from the White House in order to declare their refusal to participate as well.
Among those awaiting an official statement Friday were Australia, Holland, Denmark, and Britain.
The first conference in Durban, South Africa was littered with anti-Semitic sentiment and declared Israel one of the racist states in the world. The Bush administration chose not to participate in the first conference but Obama decided to attempt discourse in order to try to change the final wording of the document set to emerge from the conference.
The US was hoping that the declarations made in Durban in 2001 would be stricken from the record and another document prepared, from which criticism against Israel and the period of slavery in the US would be absent.
However Obama's representatives were unsuccessful in imposing change, and the 100 clauses in the document still include many references to Israel.
The document currently includes a passage rendering any criticism against Islam a criminal act.
2 comments:
that was a funny reaction the US is worried that zionism is exposed as a true racist Entity . they are scared of the truth . and they bash our ears about the Freedom of speech and press . Can you imagine anyone else refusing to attend a racism conference because they do not want to hear zionismb = racism .. Ha ha ha ha .
Canada becomes Israel
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