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| Iran, Syria Bid for U.N. Rights Council under Attack |
| 2013-07-12 |
| [An Nahar] The United States and Israel on Thursday slammed a bid by Iran and Syria to get seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , Rosemary DiCarlo, called the campaigns "highly inappropriate" because of their records on human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. Israel's U.N. envoy Ron Prosor said it was "a new world record for lunacy." Iran and Syria are among seven countries vying for four Asia-Pacific seats on the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, diplomats told Agence La Belle France Presse. They will be in competition with China, Jordan, Maldives, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Vietnam, diplomats said. A vote on the council seats will be held at the U.N. General Assembly in New York later this year. Iran and Syria are current members of the council but their bid to extend their terms has infuriated western governments. "We expect the Asian states to face intense lobbying now over this slate," said one diplomat from the region. The U.S. envoy said that neither country had yet submitted required documents to back their candidacies. "But in our view attempts by either country to join the Human Rights Council are extremely inappropriate given existing Human Rights Council mandates to investigate human rights violations in these countries, their egregious records on human rights and their ongoing collaboration to suppress democratic aspirations of the Syrian people," DiCarlo told news hounds. |
| Posted by:Fred |