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stan as the chair of the Organization of the Is-
lamic Conference (OIC) and Egypt as the head 
of the African Group, to demand that they take 
prompt and effective measures to avert what 
French President Nicolas Sarkozy described as 
‘‘a repeat of the digression and extremes of 
2001’’; and 
(B) demarche foreign capitals raising the 
concerns of Congress and to report to Congress 
on what steps the United States and its allies 
have taken to address these concerns; 
(6) commends the countries that joined the 
United States, including the member states of the 
European Union, Albania, Andorra, Australia, Bos-
nia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Israel, Moldova, 
Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, the 
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine, 
Canada, and the Republic of Korea, to vote to up-
hold earlier United Nations consensus agreements to 
limit the scope and funding of the 2009 Durban Re-
view Conference process; 
(7) urges those countries and all United Na-
tions Member States to condition any further sup-
port for the 2009 Durban Review Conference proc-
ess on the adherence to established human rights 
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standards and on the rejection of an agenda that in-
cites hatred against any group in the guise of criti-
cism of a particular government or that seeks to 
forge a global blasphemy code; 
(8) reaffirms its abiding commitment to the 
cause of combating continuing racism, racial dis-
crimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance in 
all its forms including religious intolerance; 
(9) urges all states to secure just treatment and 
the realization of fundamental human rights for all 
as enshrined in international human rights instru-
ments, in particular the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights, the International Convention on the 
Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and the Inter-
national Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 
(10) commends the diverse civil society organi-
zations that have joined together to learn from the 
shortcomings of the 2001 World Conference Against 
Racism, and to work together in a spirit of solidarity 
and mutual respect toward a 2009 Durban Review 
Conference that rejects hatred in all its forms; 
(11) reaffirms that religious freedom is best 
preserved through protection of religious exercise by 
individuals of all faiths, without restricting the right 
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of individuals of all faiths to express their beliefs 
and consciences; 
(12) recognizes the purposeful attempts of some 
countries to use inflammatory language and divisive 
tactics to divert the 2009 Durban Review Con-
ference from the important goal of eradicating global 
racism in order to foment anti-Semitism, renegotiate 
commitments made at the 2001 World Conference 
Against Racism, and prevent a focus on the lack of 
political will to address the ongoing impact of racism 
in their own countries and communities; 
(13) calls on United Nations Secretary General 
Ban Ki-Moon to publicly urge the Human Rights 
Council to adhere to its mandate and to the high re-
sponsibility and expectations placed on it, and asks 
him to personally intervene to refocus the 2009 Dur-
ban Review Conference efforts on an actual review 
of what United Nations Member States have done to 
fulfill their commitments to combat racial discrimi-
nation and other intolerance, and on concrete action 
to fight racism, anti-Semitism, and all forms of ha-
tred; and 
(14) calls on the High Commissioner for 
Human Rights to urge United Nations Member 
States to adhere to the agreed framework of the 
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2009 Durban Review Conference and its previously 
agreed upon goals and parameters and to urge 
Member States of the preparatory committee to re-
turn to decisionmaking by consensus. 
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