NEW YORK (AFP)--- The United States is circulating at the UN General Assembly a proposed resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust, diplomats said Tuesday.

The text, which has already been made public, says the 192 members of the United Nations "condemns without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust" and "urges all member states unreservedly to reject any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, or any activities to this end."

The draft points to "efforts to deny the Holocaust, which by ignoring the historical fact of these terrible events increase the risk they will be repeated."

According to several diplomats, the draft resolution, which does not name any country, was inspired by the behavior of Iran, where certain leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have publicly denied repeatedly that the Holocaust occurred.

The new UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, just before taking office on January 14, warned the Iranian leadership that the denial of the Holocaust and calls to eliminate any state were "not acceptable."

"Nor is it acceptable to call for the elimination of any state or people,"
he added, in reference to Ahmadinejad’s remarks that Israel should be "wiped off" the map and "would soon disappear".

Iran has drawn international condemnation for holding a two-day conference in December to examine questions by Ahmadinejad over the Holocaust.

On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad again qualified the Holocaust a “fabrication” and predicted that Israel would “fall in pieces”.