What a clown... no wonder he attracts clowns... Many european foreign ministers left the place when he started talking BS.

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(CNN) -- The opening of a United Nations conference in Switzerland on anti-racism was marred by chaotic scenes Monday as protests and a walkout by delegates disrupted a controversial address by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The presence of the Iranian leader at the conference had already prompted Israel to withdraw its ambassador from Switzerland, while several countries including the United States are also boycotting the gathering.

Dozens of delegates walked out of the chamber as Ahmadinejad accused Israel and the West of making "an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering ... in order to establish a totally racist government." Watch delegates make their exit »

He said Zionism, the Jewish national movement, "personifies racism," and accused Zionists of wielding economic and political resources to silence opponents. He also blasted the United States-led invasion of Afghanistan.

Protesters in brightly colored wigs interrupted Ahmadinejad as he began to speak, shouting: "You're a racist!" in accented English.

But some delegates cheered, while security officers dragged at least two protesters from the chamber.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called Ambassador Ilan Elgar home to protest a meeting between the Swiss president and Ahmadinejad, Israel's foreign ministry said in a statement.

"The meeting of a president of a democratic country with a notorious Holocaust denier such as the Iranian president, who has openly declared his intention of wiping Israel off the map, is not in keeping with the values represented by Switzerland," the ministry said.

Netanyahu's office had earlier said the diplomatic move was a response to the presence of Ahmadinejad at the conference.

Ahmadinejad has said that the Holocaust is a myth, and Iran hosted a conference in 2006 questioning the Holocaust, in which about 6 million Jews were killed.

The United States, among others, is refusing to send envoys to the Durban Review Conference.

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights said Sunday that she regrets -- and is "shocked" by -- the United States' decision to boycott.

"I am shocked and deeply disappointed by the United States' decision not to attend a conference that aims to combat racism, xenophobia, racial discrimination and other forms of intolerance worldwide," High Commissioner Navi Pillay said in a written statement.


"A handful of states have permitted one or two issues to dominate their approach to this issue, allowing them to outweigh the concerns of numerous groups of people that suffer racism and similar forms of intolerance... These are truly global issues, and it is essential that they are discussed at a global level, however sensitive and difficult they may be," she said.

The U.S. State Department said Washington's decision was based in part on a conference document that "singles out" Israel in its criticism and conflicts with the United States' "commitment to unfettered free speech."

President Barack Obama noted Sunday that the United States had previously warned it would not attend the conference if the document was not sufficiently altered in advance. According to the State Department, the document contains language that "prejudges key issues that can only be resolved in negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians."

The language reaffirms the Durban Declaration and Programme of Actions from the 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa, which the United States has said it won't support.

Obama said the United States hopes to partner with other countries "to actually reduce discrimination around the globe, but this (conference) wasn't an opportunity to do it."

Australia, Canada, Germany and Italy, among others, are also boycotting the conference. Poland announced Monday it too would pull out of the conference.

Netanyahu on Monday praised the countries that refused to attend: "I congratulate the nations that boycotted the show of hate."

"Israel regrets that the conference ... has once again become hostage to one-sided, non-constructive politicization and biased rhetoric," Israel's ambassador to the United States, Sallai Meridor, said in a statement Sunday.

The head of the World Jewish Congress denounced the upcoming conference as a platform for anti-Semitism.

"It has already become clear that the Durban Review Conference will become yet another platform within the United Nations for spreading anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda," said the group's president, Ronald Lauder.

This shameless / retarded monkey travels more than anyone I know.

In AN kheily khosh choseh, jeloy bad ham mishenh. :chair:

This is exactly why the US and six other nations, of course including Israel, said no to this joke of a convension. I'm not a fan of Israel either but this is just an excuse for everyone to do a little Jew bashing that's all it is. The fact that AN is the opening day speaker shows how big of a joke this whole thing is.

It is ridicules how ignorant and how shameless the parasites of this regime are. They are persecuting, imprisoning and killing people because of their religion, race or just because they express their views on a simple blog everyday in Iran and have the courage to allow themselves to talk about Israeli and...

You never hear them talking about Sudan or anywhere else in the world, for them, there is just one issue and that is Israeli.

I am no AN fan. And he deserves all this.
But make no mistake. The absence of Israel and US are not because of AN. There are some valid criticism about how Israel is treating the Palestinians and they don't want to hear it. And the US is following their lead.

http://politiken.tv/nyheder/udland/article693962.ece

here's the video guys :)

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Ahmadinejad prompts walkout from U.N. racism summit

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GENEVA (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a walkout from his speech to a U.N. racism summit on Monday when he accused Israel of establishing a "cruel and repressive racist regime" over the Palestinians.

The summit had already been badly undermined by a boycott by the United States and some of its major allies over concerns that it would be used as a platform for attacks against Israel.

The boycott left Ahmadinejad, who has in the past cast doubt on the Nazi Holocaust, as the only head of state in attendance. His speech produced the kind of language that the Western countries and Israel had feared.

"Following World War II they resorted to military aggressions to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering," Ahmadinejad told the conference, on the day that Jewish communities commemorate the Holocaust.

"And they sent migrants from Europe, the United States and mother parts of the world in order to establish a totally racist government in the occupied Palestine," he said, according to the official translation.

"And in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of racism in Europe, they helped bring to power the most cruel and repressive racist regime in Palestine."

Dozens of diplomats in the audience promptly got up and left the hall for the duration of the speech.

"Such outrageous anti-Semitic remarks should have no place in a U.N. anti-racism forum," said British ambassador Peter Gooderham, whose country chose not to send a minister to Geneva.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store told the conference after Ahmadinejad had spoken that his words amounted to incitement to hatred. He said Iran had made itself the odd man out by undermining agreement on a conference declaration.

"Norway will not accept that the odd man out hijacks the collective efforts of the many," he said.

FEARS OF CONTROVERSY

Eight Western nations including the United States were avoiding the entire meeting, fearing it would be dominated by what U.S. President Barack Obama called "hypocritical and counterproductive" antagonism toward the Jewish state.

However, a number of the delegations that remained behind applauded Ahmadinejad's speech.

Arab and Muslim attempts to single out Israel for criticism had prompted the United States to walk out of the first U.N. summit on racism, in South Africa in 2001.

Although the declaration prepared for the follow-up conference does not refer explicitly to Israel or the Middle East, its first paragraph "reaffirms" a text adopted at the 2001 meeting which includes six paragraphs on those sensitive issues.

U.S. President Barack Obama, the first African-American leader of the United States, said on Saturday that Washington wanted a "clean start" to engage with the United Nations on the issues to be tackled at the meeting.

Rupert Colville, spokesman for Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights who convened the meeting, said she deplored the language used by Ahmadinejad.

"This speech was completely inappropriate at a conference designed to nurture diversity and tolerance," he said.

Earlier Pillay had urged participants to do all they could to ensure the declaration is adopted at week's end.

She said this was necessary to restore confidence in the United Nations as a forum to address frictions that can explode into xenophobic attacks, as occurred in her native South Africa last year, when 62 foreigners were killed.

"We all should be mindful that a failure to agree on the way forward would negatively reverberate on the human rights agenda for years to come," Pillay said at the meeting's opening.

Thanks Toofan jan. :)

Can we move this thread to the right fourm please.

But make no mistake. The absence of Israel and US are not because of AN. There are some valid criticism about how Israel is treating the Palestinians and they don't want to hear it. And the US is following their lead.

You are correct. There are some valid criticisms for the action of Israel toward the Palestinians and Also vice versa for the actions of Palestinians toward Israel.

However, AN and the regime are using this conflict as their tool to convey their own message and repeat their useless rhetoric over and over and basically hijacking a conference.

Here is a good read on this topic:



مبارزه با نژاد پرستی يا انزواطلبی؟ نيکلا سارکوزی خواستار قاطعيت کامل در برابر احمدی نژاد شد، راديو بين المللی فرانسه
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فرنگيس حبيبی - انتقاد محمود احمدی نژاد از ايجاد دولت اسرائيل، که وی آن را دولتی نژاد پرست خواند ، واکنش شديد نمايندگان اتحاديه اروپا را در نشست مبارزه با نژاد پرستی برانگيخت. نيکلا سارکوزی خواستار قاطعيت کامل در برابر وی شد.

اين نشست به ابتکار سازمان ملل متحد برای يک هفته و به منظور بررسی پيشرفت ها و دست آورد های اين مبارزه از سال ۲۰۰۱ تا کنون در ژنو جريان خواهد داشت .


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بان کی مون، دبير کل سازمان ملل متحد در سخنرانی خود هنگام گشايش اين نشست گفت" نژاد پرستی انکار حقوق بشر است و می تواند به يک ابزار تبديل شود . هولوکاست نمونۀ پايدار اين انکار است. نژاد پرستی همچنين می تواند به صورت نفرت از يک ملت يا جمعی خاص ابراز شود يهودی ستيزی و يا "هراس از اسلام" اشکال ديگر نژاد پرستی است".

بان کی مون در حاشیۀ اين نشست هشدار داد که نبايد صهيونيسم و نژاد پرستی را يکی گرفت. اين امری بود که با توجه به حضور و سخنرانی محمود احمدی نژاد در اولين روز نشست بسياری از رهبران و مقامات کشور های مختلف غربی را نگران ميکرد . از همين رو آمريکا اسرائيل ، کانادا و استراليا از اولين کشور هايی بودند که از حضور در نشست ژنو خودداری کردند. روز دوشنبه نام کشور هايی چون آلمان و زلاند نو به فهرست کشور های غائب افزوده شد .

اسرائيل از فرانسه و انگلستان به خاطر پافشاری در شرکت در نشست انتقاد کرد و برنارد کوشنر ، وزير امور خارجۀ فرانسه گفت در صورتيکه رئيس جمهوری ايران سخنان پيشين خود را نسبت به اسرائيل تکرار کند از کنفرانس بيرون خواهد آمد. وی با شنيدن سخنان احمدی نژاد که از ايجاد دولت اسرائيل در سال ۱۹۴۵ انتقاد کرد و اين دولت را نژاد پرست خواند سالن کنفرانس را ترک کرد و گفت در مقابل چنين اظهاراتی هرگونه سازش و مسامحه غير ممکن است. نيکلا سارکوزی ، رئيس جمهوری فرانسه خواستار قاطعيت کامل در برابر چنين گفته هايی شد. و نمايندگان بيست و سه کشورعضو اتحادیۀ اروپا سالن کنفرانس را ترک کردند.

شماری از حاضران نيز گفته های احمدی نژاد را ستودند و با کف زدن هايی او را تشويق کردند. در ابتدای گشايش کنفرانس چند نفر با لباس مبدل و بينی های قرمز شده به شکل دلقک با دادن شعار هايی عليه محمود احمدی نژاد و نژاد پرست خواندن او جو سالن را متشنج کردند. که مأموران آنهارا از سالن بيرون بردند.

اولين روز نشست عملاً تحت الشعاع اظهارات رئيس جمهور اسلامی ايران قرار گرفت. دبير کل سازمان ملل متحد اظهارات وی را رد کرد و آن را مخالف اهداف چين کنفرانسی دانست . سازمان های غير دولتی که انتظار داشتند مسائل مربوط به قاچاق انسان، تبعيض عليه مهاجران در برخی کشور ها و تبعيض نسبت به اقليت های قومی و مذهبی با پشتوانۀ شرکت کشور های بزرگ به ويژه آمريکا ، در اين نشست مطرح و راه های مبارزه با آن ها مورد بررسی قرار گيرد، از وضعيت پيش آمده ناراضی هستند و نسبت به کارآمدی اين کنفرانس ابراز بدبينی می کنند