Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon, who is serving this month as chair of the Western Countries Group (WEOG), gave a speech on Wednesday during the historic UN debate for the first-ever International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime.

In September 2015, the UN General Assembly marked December 9th as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, in honor of the day the UN adopted the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide.


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