The Associated Press reports (boldface mine) that “A UN General Assembly committee has voted to discourage U.N. human rights bodies from adopting resolutions condemning the human rights situation in any country, over strong objections from the United States and many European countries.” The sponsors? Belarus and Uzbekistan. You can read the AP story here.
Meanwhile — in what might thus qualify as UN inconsistency, but for the single-minded display of purpose — the UN’s new “reformed” Human Rights Council in Geneva, which Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomed, and Ambassador John Bolton warned against, is making use of its expanded meeting time to spend absolutely all of it condemning, as Bolton notes, not Burma, or North Korea, or Sudan … but democratic Israel.
What can I say? You really can’t make this stuff up . . .
I’m absolutely speechless.
How much are we, the taxpayers of the US, contributing to the UN charade each year?
Brian
If a city’s police force adopted a policy saying it would not pursue any violations of the law, that would be comparable to what this U.N. committee has just proposed. Didn’t the U. N.’s original statement of purpose call for monitoring and reporting on human rights violations as the United Nations’ whole raison d’etre?
Well, okay: Of course, the U. N. will not adopt the proposal; and of course, if it does then it will have declared itself to be useless and a prime candidate for being dismantled.