Russia says UN conference should improve fight against racism

MOSCOW. April 22. KAZINFORM The United Nations conference on racism which opened in Geneva on Monday should give an impetus to the struggle against intolerance, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday, Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
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"The Russian Federation urges the conference to give a fresh strong momentum to uniting efforts to fighting racism and racial discrimination," Alexander Yakovenko said in a statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website. More than 100 countries approved on Tuesday a final declaration urging the fight against racism. The consensus came a day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "racist" country. The statement led to a walkout from the conference by a number of EU delegates. Israel withdrew its ambassador to Switzerland in protest at an earlier meeting between the Swiss and Iranian presidents this weekend and said the conference was "hosting a Holocaust-denying racist who openly declared his intention to wipe Israel off the map", Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version.
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