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Thu 03 Mar 2009Hijacking of conference on racism must be avoided
OPINION:IN GENEVA, you almost expect to hear a public announcement: “Stay in your seats. We have taken control of this conference. If you do as you are told no one will be harmed, except Israel.”agenda, writes EDWIN BENNATAN
It’s the second anti-racism conference, dubbed Durban II, scheduled next month in Geneva, and apparently Canada is not staying in its seat and neither is Israel. Both countries have withdrawn from the conference, and now the United States and Italy have announced that they will likely do the same. Other countries, including the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Germany, and Belgium, as well as the Czech Republic, which currently holds the European Union presidency, have warned that they are considering similar action.
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