Salehi: US trying hard to boycott Durban conference

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that the US and certain countries are trying hard to weaken participation of other countries in Durban Meeting and even they want to boycott the Durban meeting. “Unfortunately, this is the behavior of some governments who claim to be defending human rights and democracy, but in reality they outrageously violate the human rights in their own countries,” Salehi added. He noted that the supporters of the apartheid Zionist regime have boycotted this conference, because they are fearful that the participants of the conference might support Palestinians who are victims of the Zionist regime’s racist policies in the occupied territories. After many humiliating years living in an unjust world as a result of slavery, new colonialism and systematic racism in the form of apartheid in South Africa and the occupied Palestinian territories, the international community became determined to hold a high-level conference and the international community distanced itself from apartheid in Durban.