On September 17 and 18 Bucharest will play host to the Regional Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism in keeping with a resolution adopted by the Romanian Government in its meeting on Wednesday, August 20.
The event will continue the debates held during the Conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Combating Discrimination, Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, which took place in Bucharest in June 2007, reads a release of the Government.
The event will continue the debates held during the Conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Combating Discrimination, Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, which took place in Bucharest in June 2007, reads a release of the Government.
The Regional Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism will make it possible, on the one hand, to have a concrete assessment of the efficiency of the measures adopted by the participating states for combating anti-Semitism and, on the other hand, to encourage the debate on identifying new ways of action for the implementation of political pledges, by exchange of good practices in the field included.
From a political and diplomatic point of view, the above-mentioned event offers Romania, in its capacity as a new European Union member state, the opportunity to reconfirm its peculiar profile as regards combating any form of discrimination and intolerance by presenting the concrete measures taken in the past few years for the improvement of the legal and institutional framework as well as by promoting educational programmes for combating anti-Semitism and preserving the memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
The said conference will bring together experts of the relevant governmental institutions and representatives of the civil society with sound knowledge in the field of combating anti-Semitism in Central and East European countries, for whom the above-mentioned subject is quite important both from a historical point of view and as regards the present-day ampleness of the phenomenon.
Representatives specializing in the question of anti-Semitism of the OSCE, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, the US Department of State, representatives of the great Jewish organizations in the US as well as the diplomatic corps accredited to Bucharest and representatives of the mass media will also attend the above-mentioned conference.
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