oh WCAR, what hath thee wrought?

["Andrew Hagen" <xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The WCAR has finally wrapped. They stayed longer than they planned, and
they have an agreement, sans the United States and Israel.

The conference extended to nine days, and a number of countries'
delegations left due to the length. At the last plenary session, Syria
tabled a motion criticizing Israel, Then, "conference chairwoman
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa's foreign minister, declared [the
declaration] approved when nobody objected.

"The conference shall adopt a report...I hear no objections," she
said."

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=U2R4EKPUUAKEWCRBAEZ
SFEYKEEATGIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=206628

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/09/08/racism.agree/index.html

Compromise language on slavery is part of the declaration. The EU
apparently agreed to term slavery a crime against humanity. The
declaration does not explicitly endorse reparations for slavery,
although debt relief is mentioned.

The final declaration does not appear on the WCAR web site yet at

<http://www.un.org/WCAR/>.

Andrew Hagen
xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx