Statements
Canada condemn anti-Israeli and racist statements from Iranian President
UKROn behalf of the Government of Canada, I want to condemn, in the strongest terms, this latest example of anti-Israeli and racist statements from the President of Iran. In addition, the conference hosted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the sole purpose of denying the Holocaust is an offence to all Canadians.
 
Russia denounces Holocaust conference
RUSRussia criticized Iran for hosting a conference that greatly diminished the Holocaust tragedy, saying Moscow opposed "the concealment of the truth about the monstrous crimes of the Nazis."  Russia had condemned Tehran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the past for threatening Israel and denying the systematic killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said as quoted by Russian leading news agency, RIA NOVOSTI.
 
Iran a 'major threat', says Blair
Tony Blair has said Iran poses a "major strategic threat" to the Middle East and is "deliberately causing" problems.  He called the Holocaust conference in Iran this week, which had speakers including an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, "shocking beyond belief". Mr Blair also played down suggestions current problems in Iraq were caused by US decisions after Saddam's fall.
 
Statement of the Polish Government on the International Holocaust Conference
POLOn December 11-12, 2006 an International Conference on the Holocaust is being held in Teheran. The event has been organized by the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies.  In the light of statements on the Holocaust made by prominent Iranians before the conference, it is not unfounded to fear that the event will be used to question the truth about the Shoah. Any attempt at contesting this truth arouses serious concern in Poland, where 6 million people were victims of the Nazi genocide.
 
Quebec denounces Holocaust conference
The Quebec National Assembly unanimously denounced the recent Holocaust conference held in Iran, which attracted some of the world’s most infamous Holocaust deniers. Last week’s resolution, introduced by Quebec Revenue Minister Lawrence Bergman, says the National Assembly “unequivocally denounces the convening of a reprehensible conference in Iran whose objective is to dispute the historical accuracy of the Holocaust, since it is inconceivable to put into doubt one of the greatest tragedies of humanity, which was the extermination and suffering of several million people.”
 
UNESCO chief deplores attempts to question or deny Holocaust
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today deplored any attempt to question or deny the Holocaust as a conference continued in Iran on the scale and nature of the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews – already dismissed as a myth by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  In the face of the attempts to re-write history that are currently at work, I can but recall in the most emphatic manner that it is our moral duty to analyze the past and to pass it on without falsification, alteration or omission,”
 
United Nation's Ban denounces Iran on Holocaust
un_ban_smIncoming U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Iran on Thursday it was unacceptable to deny the Holocaust or call for Israel to be wiped off the map.  Ban, at a news conference, was asked about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who since coming to power in August last year has caused an outcry by terming the Holocaust a "myth" and calling Israel a "tumor" in the Middle East.
 
Statement by UN Secretary General on Holocaust Commemoration Day 2006
Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. Holocaust denial is the work of bigots. We must reject their false claims whenever, wherever and by whomever they are made.
 
U.S. says Iranian Holocaust conference "disgraceful"
The United States on Friday denounced as "disgraceful" Iranian plans to hold a conference that will question whether the Nazis used gas chambers to kill Jews during the Holocaust. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused outrage last year when he said the Holocaust -- in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazis -- was a myth. He has not repeated the remark but has said the Holocaust is open to question.
 
AJC applauds condemnations of Iran Holocaust denial conference
The American Jewish Committee applauds the many statements of Christian and Muslim religious leaders and representatives around the world who condemned the outrageous Holocaust denial conference recently convened in Iran.
 
Security Council members condemn Iranian leader’s Holocaust denial
Members of the United Nations Security Council today condemned recent remarks about Israel and the denial of the Holocaust attributed to Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
 
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