Kathianne
11-26-2010, 09:22 AM
The US should do the same. Yes, now US should follow Canada. Speaks volumes.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-again-boycotts-un-hate-fest/article1813489/
Canada condemns UN ‘hatefest’
GLORIA GALLOWAY
OTTAWA— Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 12:14PM EST
Last updated Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 3:41AM EST
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney had harsh words for the United Nations as he announced that Canada will boycott the UN’s commemoration of an anti-racism convention in South Africa 10 years ago that was widely condemned for its anti-Israel agenda.
“Canada will not participate in this charade,” the Immigration Minister told a news conference Thursday. “We will not lend our good name to this Durban hatefest.”
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The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution this week to hold a one-day commemoration of the Durban conference, to be called Durban III, in September of 2011.
Canada, along with other Western countries, voted against the resolution because “we believe that the proposed meeting will only perpetuate the kind of objectionable, divisive rhetoric that led Canada to boycott this process in the past,” Mr. Kenney explained.
“Despite the fact that the Durban declaration and its follow-up have served, frankly, to fuel bigotry, the General Assembly has chosen to repeat and even augment the mistakes of the past.”
At a conference that coincided with the Durban conference in 2001, anti-Israel factions disseminated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake text purporting to be a Jewish plan for global domination, and portraits of Adolf Hitler.
When Durban II was held in Switzerland in 2009, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – the only international leader to attend – used the international podium to deny the Holocaust and spread racism, xenophobia and hatred, Mr. Kenney said.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-again-boycotts-un-hate-fest/article1813489/
Canada condemns UN ‘hatefest’
GLORIA GALLOWAY
OTTAWA— Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 12:14PM EST
Last updated Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 3:41AM EST
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney had harsh words for the United Nations as he announced that Canada will boycott the UN’s commemoration of an anti-racism convention in South Africa 10 years ago that was widely condemned for its anti-Israel agenda.
“Canada will not participate in this charade,” the Immigration Minister told a news conference Thursday. “We will not lend our good name to this Durban hatefest.”
...
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution this week to hold a one-day commemoration of the Durban conference, to be called Durban III, in September of 2011.
Canada, along with other Western countries, voted against the resolution because “we believe that the proposed meeting will only perpetuate the kind of objectionable, divisive rhetoric that led Canada to boycott this process in the past,” Mr. Kenney explained.
“Despite the fact that the Durban declaration and its follow-up have served, frankly, to fuel bigotry, the General Assembly has chosen to repeat and even augment the mistakes of the past.”
At a conference that coincided with the Durban conference in 2001, anti-Israel factions disseminated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake text purporting to be a Jewish plan for global domination, and portraits of Adolf Hitler.
When Durban II was held in Switzerland in 2009, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – the only international leader to attend – used the international podium to deny the Holocaust and spread racism, xenophobia and hatred, Mr. Kenney said.
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