U.S. will boycott U.N. conference on racism

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By Laura MacInnis and Sue Pleming

The United States will boycott a United Nations conference on racism next week, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday, citing objectionable language in the meeting's draft declaration.

The United Nations organized the forum in Geneva to help heal the wounds from the last such meeting, in Durban, South Africa. The United States and Israel walked out of that 2001 conference when Arab states tried to define Zionism as racist.

U.S. will boycott U.N. conference on racism | Reuters

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