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April 13, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078011.html

U.S. Leaning Toward Participation in Durban 2

[Ha'aretz] Shlomo Shamir and Natasha Mozgovaya - Senior U.S. officials in Washington and New York are leaning in favor of participating in the "Durban 2" UN-sponsored anti-racism conference scheduled to take place on April 20 in Geneva, diplomatic sources said on Sunday. Diplomats informed leading Jewish officials in New York that Washington has increasingly become convinced of the need to dispatch representatives to the conference. Israel plans on boycotting the conference because it expects to be singled out for criticism at the forum. Dozens of human rights groups in the U.S. have petitioned President Obama to rethink his decision to boycott the conference.

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