Canada will boycott the UN’s commemoration of an anti-racism convention in South Africa 10 years ago that was widely condemned for its anti-Israel agenda.

GLORIA GALLOWAY at THE GLOBE AND MAIL

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“Canada will not participate in this charade,” the Immigration Minister told a news conference Thursday. “We will not lend our good name to this Durban hatefest.”

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution this week to hold a one-day commemoration of the Durban conference, to be called Durban III, in September of 2011.

Canada, along with other Western countries, voted against the resolution because “we believe that the proposed meeting will only perpetuate the kind of objectionable, divisive rhetoric that led Canada to boycott this process in the past,” Mr. Kenney explained.

“Despite the fact that the Durban declaration and its follow-up have served, frankly, to fuel bigotry, the General Assembly has chosen to repeat and even augment the mistakes of the past.”

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