The top U.N. human rights official called on Arab states to drop attempts to attack Israel at an upcoming World Conference Against Racism. Mary Robinson, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said in Geneva that delegates preparing for the conference in Durban, South Africa, should drop wording from a draft document seeking to equate Zionism with racism.
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