[AFP] President Barack Obama said Sunday: "I would love to be involved in a useful conference that addressed continuing issues of racism and discrimination around the globe," but the inclusion of anti-Israel language in the draft final communique was "completely hypocritical and counterproductive." "We expressed in the run-up to this conference our concerns that if you incorporated, if you adopted, all the language from 2001, that's just not something we can sign up for," he said.
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