UN dissatisfied with text on racism

USA: Miguel DA’Escoto, president of the UN General Assembly, criticized today the fi8nal declaration of the UN Conference on Racism held in Geneva for excluding reference to PalestiniansA’ human rights.

In a declaration hended to the press, the oficial speaker of the General Assembly, Enrique Yeves, the former Nicaraguan Foreign Minister considered as good that participants in the meeting had approved the document by consensus.

But all the same he lamented that in the text was diminished the great attention of the meeting on the victims of racism and intolerance in the first conference of its kina held in the South African city of Durban in 2001.

The World Conference on Racism and Racial Discrimination will conclude Friday in Geneva after five days with the absence of the United States and eight of its allies in solidarity with Israel.

The Nicaraguan diplomat censured that the document approved on Thursday in Geneva does not mention the recognition to the Palestinian peopleA’s right to have an independent state, as it is written in the declaration of Durban.

DA’Escoto recalled that Resolution 181 over 60 years ago, gives the UN and the General Assembly specific mandates as to “the creation still not fulfilled of a Palestine State”.

Meanwhile, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expelled today three Jewish and Iranian non government organizations from the Conference in Geneva against Racism for unacceptable behavior. The affected NGOs are the Union of Jewish Students in France, the Institute Neda for Political and Scientific Research and Coexist, which had jointly registered more than 229 participants.

In a communiqu,, Pillay explained that several members of those organizations had breached the rules of conduct, causing disturbances since the opening of the Forum last Monday. United Nations, Prensa Latina