Brussels, 03/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Belgian Foreign Minister, Louis Michel, took advantage of his intervention in the plenary session of the United Nations' Conference on Racism in Durban in his position as President of the Council of the EU to call for the atrocity of slavery to never be repeated, without mentioning the issue of apologies from the former colonial powers for the slave trade. In a draft statement negotiated by the Belgian Presidency (which was still on the negotiating...