Mr Smith, when will Australia decide exactly how it will handle Durban II?
STEPHEN SMITH: Well, again, I think it’s worth just making some remarks about Durban Review so that people understand where we are both in terms of the conference and the processes. Of course, the Durban Review is a conference about anti-racism, a conference about anti-discrimination, and the first review conference was, as the name suggests, held in Durban in 2001. The Australian view following that conference was that while a number of positive things were discussed at that conference, in the end the conference became, regrettably, an anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic harangue. And as a consequence of that analysis, Australia has not actively taken part in any of the preparatory work for the Durban II conference until very recently. The second Durban conference is scheduled to be held in Geneva from 20 to 24 of April, some six weeks away. A couple of weeks ago in the middle of February, Australia, together with other like-minded countries, including the United States, decided for the first t
