Serbia
condemns Iranian Holocaust denial meeting
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)
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