"We want to see what other countries present themselves" for membership, the American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, told reporters. "We'll work to elect countries that share our values on human rights, but we're not prepared at this point to offer our own candidacy."
Cuba and Iran have already signed up for the new body, and are widely expected to be voted in. Like America, Israel yesterday announced it would not be a candidate for membership of the Human Rights Council.
The Human Rights Council is supposed to be an improvement over the discredited Human Rights Commission, which had such luminaries as Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Cuba as members. This new group is going to be no different. The usual suspects are lining up and it shows the uselessness of such an organization when the worst offenders to human rights are able to sit in judgment of others.
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