Participants legitimise discriminatory regimes

The liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera complains about the participation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Geneva conference: "If at an anti-racism conference which is supposed to express the United Nations' commitment to defending human rights a man is allowed to speak who describes the Shoah as an 'invention' and heads a regime that has murdered hundreds of political opponents, something must be wrong. … The European states that together with the Vatican decided to take part in the conference despite this may perhaps be able to prevent a repetition of the Durban I debacle. But the danger is that their presence could serve to give international legitimisation to political regimes which make a bloodbath of human rights in their own countries on a daily basis and which don't even have a clean record when it comes to racism because they are known as masters of anti-Semitic propaganda."

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