Reuters: U.S. withdraws from United Nations human rights body
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday accusing it of a “chronic bias against Israel,” a move that activists warned would make advancing human rights globally even more difficult.
Standing with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley slammed Russia, China, Cuba and Egypt for thwarting U.S. efforts to reform the council. She also criticized countries which shared U.S. values and encouraged Washington to remain but “were unwilling to seriously challenge the status quo.”
The United States is half-way through a three-year term on the main U.N. rights body and the Trump administration had long threatened to quit if the 47-member Geneva-based body was not overhauled.
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EUROPE
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2 comments:
A very hardline GOP President, in open defiance with his party, meets with DPRK emperor Kim and starts a normalization process, who would have thought it?
After endless US lectures to Germany to bolster its defense spending and doing nothing who would have thought the NATO Sec. Gen would muse publicly that NATO was in danger of collapse?
Is Israel and the Sunni Arabs could reconcile while Palestinians are getting killed while revolting against Israeli rule, anything is possible, including the continued existence of the UN.
It's good that North Korea no longer has nuclear weapons thanks to Trump.
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