Germany to Drop Out of Durban Review Conference

Mark Leon Goldberg - April 16, 2009 - 2:41 pm

The hits just keep on coming for the anti-racism Durban Review Conference scheduled to kick off next week.  Germany will join Australia, Canada, the United States, and Italy in boycotting the conference.  I think it is safe to say that our expectations about what this conference will achieve should be substantially lowered.  As in other UN forums, a disunified Europe plus non-participation by the commonwealth and the United States generally means that more regressive regional blocs will hold sway.   Such is the consequence of non-participation.  Things could get ugly next week.

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