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Tuesday 21st April: The European Union of Jewish Students, together with Darfur groups organised a demonstration in Place des Nations to protest against the massacres in Darfur.
Act For Democracy is an association that defends and promotes democratic values such as freedom of speech and movement, women's and children's rights, tolerance, peace. We fight against any form of fanatism that tries to impose itself on others and restrict their freedom.
Mon 20.04.09: Iranian President speech at Geneva /DurbanII Conference Against Racism
Enough with the monkey business!
One day at Durban II, and the conference supposed to fight racism is already an international failure. Thank you Mister Ahmaninedjad! Well… you came, you saw, and... you made a fool of yourself Mister President.
Let us remind what steps Iran took towards Peace and tolerance:
Supplying weapons and money to shiia international terror organization Hezbollah: DONE
Supplying weapons and money to sunni Palestinian terror organization Hamas: DONE
Deploying strategic Iranian secret service operations in Latin America with the help of your friend Hugo Chavez: DONE
Trying to acquire nuclear military capability: DONE
Trying to store and develop nuclear vectors in Syria with North Korea technology: DONE
Hanging homosexuals: DONE
Murdering adultery women : DONE
Call for the annihilation of a member State of the United Nations, Israel : DONE
Anti-Semitic views and negation of the Holocaust: DONE
Discriminating, imprisoning and killing members of the Baha'i community: DONE
Public media censorship: DONE
When you go to the circus Mr Ahmaninedjad, you should expect to be taken for a clown!
S.R.
The President of the Durban review conference after Ahmadinejad’s speech asked participants to behave and listen to others who « have different views ». He went on to say « if you do not like the speaker, simply walk out of the room ».
The next speaker was M. Jonas Gahr Stoere, Norwegian Minister of foreign affaires who had the difficult task of responding to the inflammatory speech that had just occured. He said that Ahmadinejad threatens the focus of this conference. Speaking about the text that aims at protecting people against incitement to hate, he said that it had brought broad concessus and that Iran was placing itself outside of this concessus. He said « I heard his speech and I heard incitement of hate .... Ahmadinejad with his declarations has made Iran the odd one out, and Norway will not accept that the odd one out hijacks the efforts of the many".
The Norwegian foreign minister then spoke about Norway's red lines for the text, namely that human rights protects individuals not religions, that Norway will not compromise on freedom of expression, the necessity of free media, the fact that the text was of universal reach and should not pinpoint one particular conflict over another, and finally the importance of refusing all kinds of revisionnism.
Mr. Gahr Stoere said that Norway is ready to accept the text as it stands and that he regrets that some states decided at the last minute to withdraw.
He ended his speech saying that although he strongly disagreed with the first speaker: " we cannot surrender the floor of the UN to extremism".
This speech reflects the different approaches of the European countries towards extremism.
While we can understand the US position and that of the other countries who decided to boycott the Durban 2 conference, while we can applaud the european countries who chose to show their disagreement by leaving the room at the words of Ahmadinejad's hatred, we can also recognise that leaving means allowing the very regimes that violate the most strongly human rights to control the message of the UN conference against racism.
What's a better choice? We'll leave that question open to debate...
NR