Prof. Rene Cassin, 81, the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and one of the recipients of this year’s United Nations human rights awards, declined on Friday to comment on the designation of Prof. Petr Nedbailo of the Ukraine as an award winner. The Ukrainian representative and former chairman of the UN Human Rights Commission, has been denounced as “an unblushing apologist” for a much-publicized violently anti-Semitic book published in the Ukraine and for speeches in the Human Rights Commission in which he equated Zionism and Nazism. Prof. Cassin told reporters, in response to persistent questioning, that he was “embarrassed” at being asked to pass judgment on a colleague and said it was not his function to judge the jury which had made the selections.
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