Switzerland Offered To Host Holocaust Deniers' Conference

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Switzerland Offered To Host Holocaust Deniers' Conference

BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
June 1, 2007 /  http://www.nysun.com/article/55642

WASHINGTON — Switzerland's foreign minister proposed in December that 
her government host a conference on varying perspectives on the 
Holocaust. The participants would include the Jewish state of Israel, 
and the country whose president has denied the attempted genocide 
ever happened, Iran.

The details of the plan emerged this week in the Swiss weekly Die 
Weltwoche, which claimed to obtain minutes from a meeting between 
Micheline Calmy-Rey and Iran's deputy foreign minister on December 
21. The Iranians had just made world headlines after hosting a 
Holocaust denial conference in Tehran that featured neo-Nazis and 
ex-Klansmen, such as David Duke.

Die Weltwoche reported in the piece that Ms. Calmy-Rey said through a 
spokesman that she had told her Iranian interlocutor she believed the 
Holocaust was a historical fact.

The statement did not satisfy the New York-based Anti-Defamation 
League. Yesterday, its national director, Abraham Foxman, who is a 
survivor of the Holocaust, said the Swiss government owed his fellow 
survivors an apology.

"We are outraged that the Swiss government could have pitched the 
idea of a seminar on the Holocaust to, of all countries, Iran," he 
said.

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