The United States set up on Monday a likely showdown with Russia and China later in April over its plans to hold a UN Security Council meeting on human rights, an issue that Moscow and Beijing oppose being broadly discussed by the 15-member body. Current top breaking…
UNITED NATIONS – The United States set up on Monday a likely showdown with Russia and China later in April over its plans to hold a UN Security Council meeting on human rights, an issue that Moscow and Beijing oppose being broadly discussed by the 15-member body. The United States is council president for April. At a closed-door council meeting on Monday to agree to the council’s work for the month, the proposed April 18 meeting on human rights and its ties to conflict was left off the calendar. « It will be a broad debate, not intended to single out any countries, but more just to talk about the topic and how that relates to conflict and if there are things that we can be doing going forward, » US Ambassador Nikki Haley told UN member states on Monday. The United States accuses the Geneva-based Human Rights Council of being biased against Israel. Haley also said that she was unsure that the body served any value « except for this that sit on it that protect themselves.
