The Czech Republic withdraws completely from the Durban Review Conference
April 20, 2009
Original Source: http://www.eu2009.cz/en/news-and-documents/press-releases/durban-en-17825/ http://www.eu2009.cz/en/news-and-documents/press-releases/durban-en-17825/
In response to the speech by Iranian President Ahmadinejad, in which he described Israel as a country with a racist government, the Czech Republic withdraws definitively from the Durban Review Conference. 
As is the case with a number of our democratic partners – whether they are among the EU Member States or not – we cannot allow our presence at this conference to legitimise the completely unacceptable anti-Israeli attacks, i.e. a repetition of events that had a strong negative impact on the previous conference in 2001.