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Show World&Hation Page 16 Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Ahmadinejad dropped Holocaust denial from speech GENEVA (AP)-A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused an uproar with a speech attacking Israel at a U.N. conference on racism, the U.N. said Tuesday that Ahmadinejad had actually dropped language from the speech that described the Holocaust as "ambiguous and dubious." The U.N. and the Iranian Mission in Geneva did not comment on why the change was made. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, however, said he had met with the Iranian president before his speech Monday and reminded him the U.N. had adopted resolutions "to revoke the equation of Zionism with racism and to reaffirm the historical facts of the Holocaust." Ahmadinejad may have decided to drop the Holocaust phrase that was in his original text to deliver his condemnation of Israel in a more palatable fashion for many countries. Still, Ahmadinejad's accusation that the West used the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians still provoked walkouts by delegates including every European Union country in attendance. But others, including those from the Vatican, stayed because they said he stopped short of denying the Holocaust. The walkout came after Ahmadinejad accused Western nations of complicity in violence against Palestinians surrounding the foundation of Israel. The original text of his speech said "following World War II, they resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless on the pretext of Jewish sufferings and the ambiguous and dubious question of Holocaust." U.N. spokeswoman Marie Heuze said U.N. officials had checked back with the interpreters and the Farsi recording of Ahmadinejad's speech, and determined that the Iranian president had dropped the terms "ambiguous and dubious," referring instead in Farsi to "the abuse of the question of the Holocaust." Adding to the confusion, the live English translation of the speech did not mention the word "Holocaust" at all, while the French stayed true to the spoken words of Ahmadinejad. The English translator apparently was following the prepared text and stopped speaking when the Iranian president changed the wording. The meeting turned chaotic from the start when two protesters in rainbow wigs tossed red clown noses at Ahmadinejad as he began his speech with a Muslim prayer. A Jewish student group from France said it had been trying to convey "the masquerade that this conference represents." The United States and eight other Western countries had already boycotted the event that started on the eve of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, because of concerns Muslim countries would drown out all other issues with calls to denounce Israel and restrict free speech when it comes to criticizing Islam. Over 100 other countries on Tuesday approved a 16-page declaration calling on the world to combat intolerance. The declaration did not mention Israel, but among dozens of other points, it reaffirms a 2001 statement issued after the U.N.'s first global racism meeting in South Africa AN ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWISH BOY stands in front of a Nazi flag on display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 21. Frenetic Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes on Tuesday as air-raid sirens pierced the air in remembrance of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust. Israeli teaders vowed that there would not be a second Holocaust, their pledges ringing in the shadow of a U.N. conference against racism in Geneva perceived as anti-Semitic. AP photo IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD gestures during his speech at the UN Racism conference at the United Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, April 20. Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being the "most cruel and racist regime" sparking a walkout by angry Western diplomats at a U.N. racism conference and protests from others. -AP photo that recognized the "plight Obama administration both of the Palestinians" while saddens us and angers us," affirming the Jewish state's said Jaribu Hill, executive right to security. director of the Mississippi That support of the 2001 Workers' Center for Human document was cited by Rights. President BarackObama's "We will not let Mr. administration as the reaObama off the hook simply son it boycotted the Geneva because he stands inside meeting. black skin, or because his campaign served to enerAfrican-American gize and inspire thousands groups participating in of young people and people the conference sharply of color," she said. criticized Obama and his administration for not Ban, the U.N. chief, was attending and not signing heartened at the adoption of its declaration against rac-^ ' the declaration by consenism. sus and urged countries not "The boycott of the at the conference to rejoin the fight against racism. In Paris, France's foreign minister criticized the U.S. decision to stay away from an event featuring Ahmadinejad while declaring itself open for negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. "More than a paradox, it could really be a mistake," Bernard Kouchner said. 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