BELGRADE (AP)--Serbia Wednesday condemned an Iranian-hosted gathering of Holocaust deniers, calling it a "damaging and pseudoscientific" event. 

The Balkan country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement the two-day conference that began Tuesday in Tehran is an "attempt to deny undeniable facts about the tragedy of the Jewish people during World War II." 

Participants at the gathering, supported by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have questioned the Holocaust's death toll of 6 million or if it took place at all. 

Serbia's government considers the gathering a "damaging and pseudoscientific manifestation that cannot contribute to dialogue between cultures and religions," it said. 

During the Nazi occupation of Serbia and other parts of the then Yugoslav Kingdom, tens of thousands of Jews died. Less than half of Serbia's 30,000-strong Jewish community before World War II survived the Holocaust. Many later moved to Israel or to the West. 

December 13, 2006 12:14 ET (17:14 GMT)