Chairmanship

Sessions will draw attention to issues such as anti-Semitism and the media, Holocaust education, fighting discrimination and intolerance against Muslims, Christians and members of other religions in the OSCE area. Other sessions will discuss the roles of government, civil society, schools and the media in combating prejudice and in promoting tolerance.

Please see the conference website for documents and information.

News

OSCE Chairman, Spanish Foreign Minister say States need to act on commitments to fight intolerance and discrimination (8 June 2005) full text
OSCE Cordoba conference on combating anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance draws high-level interest (25 May 2005) full text
Cordoba to host OSCE conference on combating anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance (4 May 2005) full text

Adopted documents

Cordoba Declaration by the Chairman-in-Office - English (PDF)

Consolidated Summary - English (PDF)

Opening statements

Opening statement, Miguel Angel Moratinos Cuyaubé, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain - English (PDF), Spanish (PDF)
Opening statement, Dimitrij Rupel, OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia - English (PDF)
Address by Antanas Valionis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania - English (PDF)
Statement by the Delegation of Switzerland - German (PDF)
Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Croatia, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic - English (PDF)
Statement of State Secretary of Slovakia, Magda Vasaryova - English (PDF)
Statement of Antonio Canizares, Archbishop of Toledo, Head of the Delegation of the Holy See - English (PDF), Spanish (PDF)
Statement by Senator Roberto Antonione, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Italy - English (PDF), Italian (PDF)
Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mladen Ivanic - English (PDF)
Statement by the Delegation of Greece - English (PDF)
Statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation - English (PDF), Russian (PDF)
Statement of State Secretary of Slovakia, Magda Vasaryova - English (PDF)
Statement by the US Delegation United States delivered by New York Governor George E. Pataki - English (PDF)
Statement by the European Union, presented by Luxembourg - French (PDF)
Statement by Pavel Svoboda, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic - English (PDF)
Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, Vuk Draskovic - English (PDF), Spanish (PDF)
Statement by Mehmet Aydin, Minister of State of Turkey - English (PDF)
Statement by the Head of the Delegation of Cyprus, Kypros Chrysostomides, Minister, Government Spokesman - English (PDF)
Remarks by Piotr A. Switalski, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland - English (PDF)
Statement by Edgar M. Bronfman, World Jewish Congress - English (PDF)
Statement by the Solicitor General, Mike O'Brien, QC, Delegation of the United Kingdom - English (PDF)
Intervention by the Delegation of France - French (PDF)
Statement by Ardak Doszhan, Vice-Minister of Culture, Information and Sport of the Republic of Kazakhstan - English (PDF)
Statement by Solomon Passy, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria - English (PDF)
Statement by the Delegation of Canada - English (PDF), French (PDF)
Statement by Senator Pierre Chevalier, Personal Representative of the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs - English (PDF)
Statement by Stanislav Buko, Chairman of the Committee on Religion and Nationalities under the Council of Ministers of Belarus - English (PDF), Russian (PDF)
Statement by Christine Mueller, State Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany - English (PDF), German (PDF)
Address by Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania - English (PDF)
Statement of State Secretary Lise Bergh, Ministry of Justice, Sweden - English (PDF)
Statement by Oleg Shamshur, Head of the Delegation of Ukraine, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine - English (PDF)

Session 1 - Anti-Semitism and the media:  inter alia, the press, TV, Internet, radio, the film industry

Contribution by the Delegation of Italy - Italian (PDF)
Contribution by Rimma Varzhapetyan, Chairwoman of the Jewish Community of Armenia - Russian (PDF)
Statement by Rabbi Marvin Hier, Delegation of the United States of America - English (PDF)
Statement by the Delegation of the United States of America - English (PDF) Intervention by Elisabeth Cohen-Tannoudji, Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France - French (PDF)
Intervention by the World Union of Jewish Students - English (PDF)

Session 2 - Education on the Holocaust and on anti-Semitism

Introduction by Karen Polak, Chair of the Education Working Group of the Task Force on International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research - English (PDF)
Introduction by Beate Winkler, Director, European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) - English (PDF)
Statement by Cobi Benatoff, President of the European Jewish Congress - English (PDF)
Statement by Rabbi Marvin Hier, Delegation of the United States of America - English (PDF)
Statement by State Secretary Bjorn Haugstad, Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research - English (PDF)
Statement by Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - English (PDF)
Statement by Piet de Klerk, Human Rights Ambassador, the Netherlands - English (PDF)
Introductory statement for panel on Holocaust education, Moderator Gert Weisskirchen - English (PDF)
Report of Moderator Gert Weisskirchen (Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism) - English (PDF)
Statement by Mr. Alexander Zhuravskiy, Delegation of the Russian Federation - English (PDF)

Session 3 - Responding to anti-Semitic and hate-motivated crimes:  the role of governments, institutions, legislation, law enforcement and civil society

Background paper: synthesis of Italian legislation against racism and discrimination - Italian (PDF)
Contribution by the European Law Centre "The condition of the religious freedom in Bulgaria" - English (PDF)
Contribution by Willy Weiner, "Jewish Cultural Center Menora, Armenia" - Russian (PDF)
Background paper - Address by Jewish Communities of the Republic of Azerbaijan - English (PDF)
Statement by Piet de Klerk, Human Rights Ambassador, the Netherlands - English (PDF)
Statement by the Delegation of Switzerland - English (PDF)
Statement by Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - English (PDF)
Contribution by the Delegation of the Russian Federation - Russian (PDF)
Statement by Rabbi David Zwiebel, Delegation of the United States of America - English (PDF)
Statement by Ambassador Edward B. O'Donnell, Delegation of the United Stated of America - English (PDF)
Statement by the Delegation of Ukraine - English (PDF)
Statement by Robert Meth, Chairman of NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States and Eurasia - English (PDF)
Remarks by the President of Magen League, Rabbi Alexander Lakshin - English (PDF)
Intervention by Patricia Prendiville, ILGA-Europe, European Region of the International Lesbian and Gay Association - English (PDF)
Statement by Ambassador Yusuf Buluc, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the OSCE - English (PDF)
Statement Iakov Goutman, president of World Association of Belarusan Jewry - Russian (PDF)
Statement by Alexander Verkhovsky, SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, Moscow - Russian (PDF)
Report by the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, "After The Promise: from Copenhagen to Cordoba. An Update on Keeping OSCE Commitments to Combat Anti-Semitism." - English (PDF)
Contribution by the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights - English (PDF)

Session 4 - Fighting intolerance and discrimination against Muslims:
facilitating integration and respecting cultural diversity

Statement by Mehmet Aydin, Minister of State of Turkey - English (PDF)
Contribution by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference - English (PDF)
Article by Ambassador Omur Orhun, Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims, "Tolerance, non-discrimination and harmony" - English (PDF)
Statement by Piet de Klerk, Human Rights Ambassador, the Netherlands - English (PDF)
Statement by Refat Chubarov, Delegation of Ukraine - English (PDF), Russian (PDF)
Intervention by Michel Doucin, Ambassador for Human Rights, Delegation of France - French (PDF)
Statement by Fatih Dursun, Association of Islamic Organizations of Zurich, VIOZ - English(PDF)
Intervention by Boukhzer el Bachir, Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) English (PDF)
Statement Kamal Nawash, Delegation of the United States of America - English (PDF) Statement by Senior Adviser Monica Andersson, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden - English (PDF)
Statement by Mazen Chouaib, National Council on Canada Arab Relations - English (PDF)
Paper By Imam Dr Abduljalil Sajid, Chairman Muslim Council for Religious and Racial Harmony UK, "Islamophobia: A new word for an old fear" - English (PDF)
Statement by the Head of the Austrian Delegation, Ambassador Hans Winkler - English (PDF), German (PDF)

Session 5 - Fighting intolerance and discrimination against Christians and members of other religions: respecting religious identity in a pluralistic society

Contribution by the Delegation of the Russian Federation - Address by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexy - Russian (PDF)
Intervention by Urban Gibson, OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Expert  - English (PDF)
Contribution by Stepan Danielyan, "Collaboration for Democracy, Armenia" - Russian(PDF)
Address by Nevzat Yalcintas, Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly - English (PDF)
Address by Hegumen Philaret (Bulekov), Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Strasbourg, France - English (PDF)
Contribution by Alfred Donath, President of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, Geneva - English (PDF)
Contribution by Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) - English (PDF)
Statement by Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli, Professor of Canonic and Ecclesiastical Law at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Italian (PDF)
Intervention by Joanna Chellapermal, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) EU Office, "European Platform on Religious Discrimination and Intolerance" - Italian (PDF)
Statement by Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - English (PDF)
Statement of the Most Reverend Antonio Canizares, Archbishop of Toledo, Head of the Delegation of the Holy See - English (PDF)
Statement by Human Rights First - English (PDF)
Contribution by the Christian Solidarity Worldwide, "Kazakhstan - New Restrictive Draft Legislation" - English (PDF)
Intervention by Abi Freeman, European lnformation Department of the Family lnternational - English (PDF)
Statement by Mr. Willy Fautre, Human Rights Without Frontiers Int. - English (PDF)
Statement by Amb. Mercedes Rico, Director General of Religious Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Justice - English (PDF)
Introductory Remarks by Rabbi Andrew Baker - English (PDF)

Session 6 - Fighting racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance and discrimination: inter alia, the role of education, the media and law enforcement

Contribution by Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) - English (PDF)
Statement by Turgut Tarhanly, Professor of International Law and Human Rights Law at Ystanbul Bilgi University - English (PDF)
Contribution by Centre AVER of Research and Action on all the forms of racism - English (PDF), French(PDF)
Contribution by the NGO "The Voice of the Rroms" - English (PDF), French (PDF)
Contribution by European Centre for Antiziganism Research (EZAF) - English (PDF)
Written intervention of Saimir Mile, President of the Association "La Voix des Rroms" - English (PDF)
Introductory Statement by Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - English (PDF)
Statement by Alimirzamin Askerov, Head of Delegation, Chief of the Department for Human Rights, Democratization and Humanitarian Problems, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan - English (PDF)
Statement by Honorable Jennette Bradley, Delegation of the United States of America - English (PDF) Intervention by Maxim Anmeghichean, ILGA-Europe, European Region of the International Lesbian and Gay Association - English (PDF)

Closing session

Cordoba Declaration by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office - English (PDF)
Statement by the Delegation of Luxembourg/European Union - French (PDF)
Statement by Miguel Angel Moratinos, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain - Engish (PDF),  Spanish (PDF)

Side events

Statement by Daniel S. Mariaschin, Executive Vice President, B'nai B'rith International - English (PDF)
Statement by Josef Zisels (Ukraine, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress) - English (PDF)
Presentation made by the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine - Russian (PDF)
Statement by the President of Estonian Jewish Community Cilja Laud - English (PDF)
Address by Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania - English (PDF)
Contribution by Senator Jerry S. Grafstein, The Senate of Canada, Head of the Liberal, Democratic / Reform Group at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly - English (PDF)
Contribution by The National Council for Combating Discrimination of Romania - English (PDF)
Statement by Deidre Berger, The American Jewish Committee - English (PDF)

Workshops

Statement by the Delegation of the United States of America, "Implementing ODIHR's and Participating States' Tolerance Taskings" - English (PDF)
USCIRF Comments at the OSCE Panel of Experts on Religion or Belief - English (PDF)
Address by Alexander Verkhovsky, SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, Moscow, to the Advisory Panel of Experts, "Discrimination against religious groups in the context of security concerns" - English (PDF)
Statement by the Most Reverend Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, Delegation of the United States of America - English (PDF)

Preparatory NGO Forum for the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance, Seville, 7 June 2005

Address by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office - English (PDF)
Remarks by Ambassador Omur Orhun, Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims - English (PDF)
Resolution by the World Jewish Congress - English (PDF)
Synthesis of "The Voice of the Rroms" - English (PDF)
Recommendations by jugendschutz.net - English (PDF)

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