[Reuters] Stephanie Nebehay - Following an EU threat to boycott next month's "Durban II" UN conference on racism in Geneva, diplomats have removed references to Israel and religious defamation from the draft declaration in an amended text circulated on Tuesday. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said, "it would seem that precise improvements have been made."
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