On 11-12 December, the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) organised a conference in Tehran entitled “Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision”.
An array of Holocaust-deniers was assembled on that occasion, with the participation of the highest political authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. IPIS was the convener of the meeting, playing both a logistical and substantive role, calling for papers from Holocaust-deniers. The Director-General of IPIS, Rasoul Mousawi, gave an opening speech.
IPIS has served in the past as a mainstream Iranian interface with foreign think-tanks and research institutes specialising in international and security affaires. Through its complicity with the deniers of the absolute Evil that was the Holocaust, IPIS has now forfeited its status as an interlocuteur valable, as an acceptable partner.
Under these conditions the undersigned, as leaders of international and security affairs institutes, have undertaken the following:

• to suspend all ongoing programmes conducted with IPIS such as joint meetings and seminars, and exchange programmes of scholars and publications.
• To refuse participation in all meetings and seminars organised by IPIS.
• To decline all IPIS sponsored travel to Iran.
• To refuse to invite IPIS staff to our meetings and seminars.

We maintain the principle of dialogue with Iran. But we will not be in a position to reconsider our decisions regarding IPIS until there has been a change of course marked by an explicit repudiation of Holocaust denial and a return to academic standards.

14 December 2006

 

UPDATED LIST OF SIGNATORIES   (Tuesday, January 09th, 2007)

Chairpersons and directors of institutes

Ross Babbage, Director, Strategy International, Australia
Alyson Bailes, Director, SIPRI, Stockholm
Rafael Bardaji, Director-international policy, FAES, Spain
Dennis Blair, President, IDA, Virginia
Pascal Boniface, Director, IRIS, Paris
John Chipman, Director-general, IISS, London
Marta Dassù, Director, Aspen Italia, Rome
Thérèse Delpech, Director, Strategic Affairs, CEA, France
Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group, Brussels
Lawrence Freedman, King’s College, London
Jeff Gedmin, Director, Aspen Institute Berlin
Dominique Giuliani, Chairman, Robert Schuman Foundation, Paris
François Godement, Director, AsiaCentre, Paris
Nicole Gnesotto, Director European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris
Douglas Goold, President and CEO, Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform, London
Jeremy Greenstock, Director, Ditchley Foundation, UK
Daniel Gros, Director, CEPS, Brussels
Istvan Gyarmaty, Director, Centre for Democratic Transition, Budapest
Allan Gyngell, Director, Lowy Institute, Sydney
John Hamre, Chairman, CSIS, Washington DC
François Heisbourg, Chairman, IISS, London, President, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Nanna Hvidt, Director, Danish Institue for International Affairs
Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, CERI, Paris
Josef Janning, Deputy Director, Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich University
Fred Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council, Washington DC
Craig Kennedy, President, German Marshall Fund, Washington DC
Ivan Krastev, Director, CLS, Sofia
Roman Kuzniar, Director, Polish Institute for International Studies
Pierre Lévy, Director, CAP, Paris
Sonja Licht, Director, BFPE, Belgrade
Sverre Lodgaard, Director, Norvegian Institute for International Affairs.
Ognyan Minchev, Director, Institute for Regional and International Studies, Sofia
Thierry de Montbrial, Director, IFRI, Paris
Robert O’Neill, Director, US Studies Center, Sydney
Guillaume Parmentier, Director, CFE, Paris
Carlos Pascual, Director, Foreign Policy Studies Brookings, Washington DC
Volker Perthes, Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin
Florentino Portero, Director, GEES, Spain
Bruno Racine, Chairman, FRS, Paris
Tomas Ries, Director, Swedish Institute for International Affairs
Guillaume Schlumberger, Director, FRS, Paris
Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Director, Polish Institute for International Affairs
Eberhard Sandschneider, Director, Forschungsinstitut, DGAP, Berlin
Rudolf Scholten, President, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna
Jiri Schneider, Prague Security Studies Institute
Stefano Sivestri, President, IAI, Rome
Gordon Smith, Centre for International Studies, Victoria, Canada
Eugeniusz Smolar, Director, Centre for International Relations,Warsaw
Fred Tanner, Director, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Seyfi Tashan, Director, Foreign Policy Institute, Turkey
Loukas Tsoukalis, President, ELIAMEP, Athens
Tapani Vaahtoranta, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Alvaro Vasconcelos, Director, IEEI, Lisbon
Rob de Wijk, Director, Clingendael Security and Security Programme, The Hague

Individual Endorsements (initial list)

Ron Asmus
Gertrud Auer Borea d’Olmo
Jacob Bercovitch
Christoph Bertram
Joachim Bitterlich
Bernard Bobé
Paul Cornish
Ivo Daalder
Olivier Debouzy
Michael Emerson
Jozef Goldblat
Rita Hauser
Karl Kaiser
Catherine Kelleher
Zaki Laïdi
Marin Lessenski
Roberto Menotti
Klaus Naumann
Thomas Pickering
François Rachline
Vasantha Raghavan
Bob Rae
Berel Rodal
Enrico Sassoon
Simon Serfaty
Lilia Shevtsova
Bruno Tertrais
Strobe Talbott