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The United States announced on Saturday it would stay away, citing "objectionable" language in a text prepared for the Geneva summit, which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address on its opening day on Monday. Canada and Israel also have said they will not attend the meeting, which the United Nations organized to help heal the wounds of its last major race summit in 2001. The United States and Israel walked out of that South African meeting after Arab states sought to define Zionism as racist. Australia said it shared U.S. concerns about the declaration for the follow-up conference. Although it omitted any reference to Israel and the Middle East, the negotiated text "reaffirms" a declaration adopted at the 2001 Durban meeting that singled out the Jewish state. "Regrettably, we cannot be confident that the Review Conference will not again be used as a platform to air offensive views, including anti-Semitic views," Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said in a statement. Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said on Sunday he would not attend either, citing concerns Islamic states would use the U.N. forum to try to bar "incitement to religious hatred" or "defamation of religion" -- a concept borne of the 2006 controversy over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. "Some countries that still have a long way to go in the human rights domain are misusing the summit to put religion above people's rights and to unnecessarily restrict freedom of speech," Verhagen said in a statement. He described the conference document as "unacceptable" and a "missed chance" to fight racism and discrimination. The European Union is meeting late on Sunday to determine a common position on whether to send delegations to Geneva. Britain has already said it would take part in the meeting but without a high-level official. However, Pope Benedict, who is sending a Vatican delegation to Geneva, hailed the U.N. conference as an important chance to fight discrimination. "I sincerely urge all delegates at the Geneva conference to work together in a spirit of dialogue and mutual acceptance to put an end to all forms of racism, discrimination and intolerance," said the pope, celebrating the fourth anniversary of his pontificate, after his weekly Sunday address. BOYCOTT BLOW U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has made ensuring wide participation at the "Durban II" meeting one of her top goals in the job she took over from Canada's Louise Arbour last year. The absence of Western powers in Geneva is a blow to the United Nations and could undermine future diplomatic efforts to tackle sensitive questions of race, ethnicity and religion, which Pillay has warned can explode into violence if ignored. 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