Posted on 06/15/2018 9:46:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
GENEVA (Reuters) - Talks with the United States over how to reform the main U.N. rights body have failed to meet Washington’s demands, activists and diplomats say, suggesting that the Trump administration will quit the Geneva forum whose session opens on Monday.
A U.S. source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the withdrawal appeared to be “imminent” but had no details.
Diplomatic sources said it was not a question of if but of when the United States retreats from the Human Rights Council, which is holding a three-week session through July 6.
A separate U.S. official in Geneva had no information about a looming pull-out during the upcoming talks, saying: “We are still moving ahead with our engagement for the coming session.”
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, publicly told the Council a year ago that Washington might leave the body unless a “chronic anti-Israel bias” were removed.
The forum, set up in 2006, has a permanent standing agenda item on suspected violations committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories, which Washington wants removed.
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Looks like we are leaving the UN, one step at a time.
the un rights should be renamed the socialist’s rights
The Human Rights Council, is a pathetic joke! Not interested in Human Rights at all if you are a Jew, a Christian, a white South African, or a white non progressive!
Time, no, way past time, to get the UN out of the US! Let the great EU shoulder the burden!
Leave or stay - don’t really care.
But stop giving them money.
Move the entire wretched hive of scum and villainy to freakin Haiti
Talks with the United States over how to reform the main U.N. rights body have failed to meet Washington’s demands... Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, publicly told the Council a year ago that Washington might leave the body unless a “chronic anti-Israel bias” were removed. The forum, set up in 2006, has a permanent standing agenda item on suspected violations committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories, which Washington wants removed.
I didn't check for any of the usual BS rants against Nikki Haley. Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.
A ‘Human Rights Commission’ that includes Cuba & Venezuela (socialist crapholes), South Africa (proposed killing white people), China & Saudi Arabia (anti-Christian) and other Middle Eastern countries that seek the destruction of Israel... NO THANKS.
To borrow a phrase, “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy as the U.N. Human Rights Council.” As far as I’m concerned we can’t was our hands of it fast enough.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Did this under GWB. One of President Barack's actions in his first couple months was to rejoin. It's a fine Jew hating organization. Minister Farrakhan would approve.
Though I would love the US out of the UN,
The fact we are there serves a purpose.
The US has veto power.
We get to block a lot of the BS that the UN would try to pull if we weren’t there.
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