CALL ON THE UK GOVERNMENT TO WITHDRAW

The controversy over Ahmadnejad speaking at the UN Durban Review Conference is now all over the news worldwide. The protest from the conference floor of several delegations walking out was nothing short of admirable and a true reflection of what the conference should be representative of.The speech that the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave yesterday was appalling. It crossed all of the UK red lines as well as many other countries, and we are proud that the UK delegation were among the first to walk out as he began to speak. As the day and the evening progressed, other countries began to pull out of the conference altogether as further protest of the farce that has become the Durban Review Conference.We now have a responsibility to hold our British delegation accountable for continuing their participation in a conference that is clearly here not to stand up against racism and intolerance worldwide, but bear witness to it happening on its own doorstep and do nothing. Furthermore they continue to be part of a conference with a chairperson and many other delegations that remained silent during the tirade of a racist.We call as students in Geneva witnessing this injustice and the disgrace that the conference has descended in to for the British government to withdraw their delegation from the Durban Review Conference.