The President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Mr. Pier Ferdinando Casini, declared in Rome yesterday that there is "a moral obligation to combat racism. Any intention to deny the existence of the Holocaust - which would in any case be bound to fail - is an insult to our conscience as human beings."

Speaking on the subject of the Conference in Tehran on "The reality of the Holocaust", the President of the world organization of parliaments added: "All of us have a moral obligation to combat discrimination and crimes against humanity".

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