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U.S. to Boycott U.N. Racism Conference

HeadlineJun 02, 2011

The Obama administration has announced it will again sit out of a U.N. conference on racism following its initial boycott of 2009. The United Nations is hosting the World Conference Against Racism in September to mark 10 years since the process that began in Durban, South Africa. In 2001, Bush administration diplomats walked out of the Durban conference after delegates proposed a resolution likening Zionism to racism.

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