Apology Over Rwanda Genocide

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The diplomat who was president of the United Nations Security Council in April 1994 apologized on Wednesday for the Council’s failure to do anything to halt the slaughter of more than one million people during the Rwandan genocide. The diplomat, Colin Keating, who was the New Zealand ambassador at the time, issued the rare apology during a Council meeting to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide. Mr. Keating said that New Zealand, Nigeria, the Czech Republic, Spain and other nations had urged condemnation of the genocide in Rwanda shortly after it began in April 1994, but that most veto-wielding permanent Security Council members had objected. The United States and France were among them.