Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My final question to the foreign minister relates to the World Conference against Racism and in particular the third meeting of the World Conference against Racism which is to be held in New York later this year. Is the minister aware that the United States administration has recently announced that it will boycott this conference. Given that the previous two conferences, known as Durban I and Durban II, have been marred by anti-Semitic speeches and bias against Israel and that keynote speakers have included Colonel Gadaffi and President Ahmadinejad, will the government also boycott this conference, presumably to be known as Durban III? If so, when will the government make that decision and when will it be made public?

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