UK, Germany To Let UN Durban Resolution Pass After Boycotting Last Month

By JPost
Posted on 10/10/21 | News Source: JPost

The UK, Germany and nine other countries that boycotted the Durban IV Conference at the UN General Assembly because of its antisemitic history are set to support a pro-Durban resolution at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday.

ALERT: Despite 38 nations having just rejected Durban IV for commemorating the antisemitic 2001 Durban Conference, the U.N. Human Rights Council is tomorrow planning to do exactly that.

UNHRC members—🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱🇦🇹🇩🇰🇮🇹🇵🇱🇨🇿🇧🇬🇧🇷🇦🇷🇺🇾🇯🇵🇰🇷🇲🇽—must vote No.https://t.co/nObxEAz2b8 pic.twitter.com/w5oKsp0ORH
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 8, 2021

The resolution in Geneva, much like the conference in New York less than three weeks ago, is mostly focused on racism against people of African descent, but reaffirms support for the 2001 Durban Declaration, which singled Israel out as a perpetrator of racism, and supports the very conference those 11 countries boycotted.

“Welcoming the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action during the holding of a high-level meeting by the General Assembly... during which the Assembly adopted a political declaration to mobilize political will for the full and effective implementation of the Durban Declaration,” the resolution reads.