Saturday, August 9, 2008

Israel likely to skip next UN racism conference

FILE ** A Nov. 15, 2006 file photo shows Itzhak Levanon, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Israel to Geneva, listening to a session of the Human Rights Council at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Israel will almost surely boycott the United Nations' next racism conference in Geneva, its ambassador said Wednesday, warning that the meeting is likely to sink into the same anti-Semitism that prompted the U.S. and Israel to walk out of the last one seven years ago. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini, File)
AP - Wed Aug 6, 11:31 AM ET

GENEVA - Israel will almost surely boycott the next U.N. racism conference in Geneva, its ambassador said Wednesday, warning that the meeting is likely to sink into the same anti-Semitism that prompted the U.S. and Israel to walk out of the last one seven years ago.

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