- Title: GERMANY: BERLIN CONFERENCE URGES UNITY AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM.
- Date: 29th April 2004
- Summary: (EU) BERLIN, GERMANY (APRIL 28, 2004) (REUTERS) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL ARRIVING AT CONFERENCE WITH CURRENT OSCE CHAIRMAN AND BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SOLOMON PASSY POWELL AND POSSY SHAKING HANDS VARIOUS OF CONFERENCE UNDER WAY U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SEATED NEXT TO GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSCHKA FISCHER DELEGATES POWELL SPEAKING PAN OF
- Embargoed: 14th May 2004 13:00
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- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
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- Country: Germany
- Topics: General,Politics,Religion
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- Story Text: Berlin conference urges unity against anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise and to defeat it will take coordinated action by many nations, speakers told an international conference on the subject on Wednesday (April 28).
The two-day meeting of representatives from the OSCE's 55 nations in North America, Europe and Central Asia aims to agree measures to counter anti-Jewish violence and propaganda.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli President Moshe Katsav are the highest profile guests at the meeting in Germany, the follow-up to a similar meeting in Vienna last June.
Jewish groups have said that European governments in particular have been late to respond to a revival in anti-Semitism in the past few years which has coincided with escalating violence in the Middle East.
A recent European Union report showed that attacks on Jews increased in several EU states in 2002 from 2001. The sharpest rise was in France, where incidents rose six-fold. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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