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UN Secretary-General Deplores Any Conference that Would Question Reality of Holocaust
[United Nations] UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan came out strongly Thursday against any effort to question or deny the Holocaust after reports that Iran would host a conference next week to discuss the scale and nature of the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews - already dismissed as a myth by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "The Secretary-General personally believes that any attempt to cast doubt on the reality of this unique and undeniable horror must be firmly resisted by all people of goodwill and of whatever faith," said Annan's spokesman, Stephane Dujarric. "The Secretary-General would deeply deplore any conference whose purpose is to question or deny the reality of the Holocaust. Only a year ago the General Assembly passed a resolution which 'rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, either in full or part,'" Dujarric added.