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"EU agrees on plans for racism rules
Published: Friday, 20 April, 2007, 12:55 PM Doha Time
LUXEMBOURG: European Union justice ministers agreed yesterday on new rules to criminalise racism and xenophobia, EU diplomats said, but details of the agreement remained unclear.
The hard-fought deal seemed at risk after the Baltic states demanded to include making the denial of Stalinist atrocities a crime.
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia had insisted on making illegal the condoning, denial or trivialisation of crimes against humanity committed under the Soviet regime led by Joseph Stalin."
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