"NGO Committee Suspends 2004 Session, Defers Action on Applications of Four Organizations for Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council"
Pending the issuance of relevant documents, the Committee took note ad referendum of the quadrennial reports of Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung and Organization for the Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Regarding the report of the latter, Germany’s representative noted that the NGO, during the 2001 Racism Conference in Durban, South Africa, had participated in activities that equated Zionism with racism. Quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., he said that when people talk about Zionism, they meant Jews. That was anti-Semitism. If the organization continued to engage in anti-Semitic activities in the future, he said he would insist on measures against that NGO.