The Czech Republic withdraws completely from the Durban Review Conference

In response to the speech by Iranian President Ahmadinejad, in which he described Israel as a country with a racist government, the Czech Republic withdraws definitively from the Durban Review Conference.

As is the case with a number of our democratic partners – whether they are among the EU Member States or not – we cannot allow our presence at this conference to legitimise the completely unacceptable anti-Israeli attacks, i.e. a repetition of events that had a strong negative impact on the previous conference in 2001.