Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The 23 delegates of the European Union carried out their threat to walk out of the Durban Review Conference during the opening day talks if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s talk included anti-semitic remarks. Ahmadinejad ignored a personal plea from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon not to link zionism and racism and launched into a diatribe against Israel.
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Posted by Ellen Wallace on 20 April 2009 at 21:23 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 20 April 2009.
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Tags: Ahmadinejad, Durban conference, EU delegates, Geneva, International organizations, Iran, Israel
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