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Statement of PACE President René van der Linden on the Teheran Holocaust conference

Strasbourg, 18.12.2006 – “From the perspective of the Council of Europe – an organisation created to prevent the repetition of such horrors – to call into question the fact or the importance of the Holocaust is deeply offensive,” said René van der Linden, President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).

“Our memory of this exceptional historic tragedy must remain undiminished, as a warning to future generations of what can happen if our darkest capacities for inhumanity are encouraged and uncontrolled.”

“As President of the Parliamentary Assembly, I must put on record my clear and absolute rejection of this dangerous and profoundly misguided attempt to rewrite the history of one of Europe’s most horrific episodes.”

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