Nine months after the special session, on 1 November 2005, the General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/60/7 by consensus which rejected any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, and condemned "without reserve" all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, whenever they occur. In the statements that followed, speakers, including several foreign ministers, reviled the Nazi regime, which they said had built a cruel and implacable system of repression. Speakers from all regions of the world stressed that never again should another Holocaust happen. He said an entire civilization, which had contributed far beyond its numbers to the cultural and intellectual riches of Europe and the world, was uprooted, destroyed, laid waste. “We must be vigilant against all ideologies based on hatred and exclusion, whenever and wherever they may appear”, he said. There were other victims, too he said –- the Roma, or gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, Soviet war prisoners, and mentally or physically handicapped people, but he said the tragedy of the Jews was unique, as two thirds of all Europe’s Jews, including one-and-one-half million children, were murdered. Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressed the gathering, stating that the camps were not mere “concentration camps” their purpose was to exterminate an entire people. Two months later, on January 24, 2005, the UN General Assembly held a special session to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. The high-level gathering was prompted by requests from some 30 Member States who stated that “such an evil must never be allowed to happen again” and was the first of its kind. On November 22, 2004, the General Assembly noted in its resolution A/RES/59/26 that 2005 would mark the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, which had brought untold sorrow to mankind, and had established the conditions for the creation of the United Nations.
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