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UN says it will discuss recent incidents of Koran burning

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The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an urgent session in the coming days to address recent incidents of Koran burning in Europe, a council spokesman says at a press conference in Geneva. "The UN Human Rights Council will hold an urgent debate to discuss the alarming rise in premeditated and public acts of religious hatred, as manifested by the current desecration of the holy Koran in some European and other countries," council spokesman Pascal Sim tells reporters. SOUNDBITE

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