Here is the official link to the UN General Assembly Special Session on the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.

“But the tragedy of the Jewish people was unique,” he (Kofi Annan - ed.)stressed. “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....”

Turning to more recent cases of genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, Mr. Annan declared: “On occasions such as this, rhetoric comes easily. We rightly say ‘never again.’ But action is much harder. Since the Holocaust the world has, to its shame, failed more than once to prevent or halt genocide.”