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| Despite withdrawing, US still managing to influence UN Human Rights Council |
| 2025-04-06 |
Consequences guide choices, even after Uncle Sugar stopped paying for the thing. [IsraelTimes] Diplomats say US lobbying succeeds in blunting Pakistani effort to set up highest-level UN investigation on Israel’s actions in the West Bank and Gaza Two months after US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... announced a halt to American engagement with the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Human Rights Council, Washington is influencing its work by applying pressure publicly and behind the scenes, seven diplomats and rights workers said. The United States left its seat empty during a six-week session of the 47-member council ending on Friday, but its lobbying and pressure had some success, the sources told Rooters. They said the US, which has accused the council of an anti-Israel bias, had focused on blunting a proposal by Pakistain on the creation of an International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), …the name most definitely not being an accurate description of the thing, but the Pakis were a tad overexcited and the words just erupted… the most rigorous type of UN investigation, on Israel’s actions in the West Bank and Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... The version of Pakistain’s proposal that was passed on Wednesday by the council, whose mission is to promote and protect human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... worldwide, did not include the creation of the IIIM. The council already has a commission of inquiry on the Paleostinian Territories, but Pakistain’s proposal would have created an additional probe with extra powers to gather evidence for possible use in international courts. A March 31 letter sent by Brian Mast, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, and James R. Risch, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cautioned against voting the proposal through. "Any HRC member state or UN entity that supports an Israel-specific IIM...will face the same consequences as the ICC faced," the letter said. It appeared to be referring to sanctions approved by the House of Representatives on the International Criminal Court in protest at its arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defense minister over Israel’s campaign in Gaza. The final version of Pakistain’s proposal referred only to an invitation to the UN General Assembly to consider an IIIM in the future. Two Geneva-based diplomats said they had received messages from US diplomats before the change of wording asking them to oppose the new investigation. "They were saying: ’back off on this issue’," said one, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Rooters could not establish whether the revision was a direct result of US actions. A US State Department spokesperson said it was complying with the executive order signed by Trump on Feb. 4, withdrawing the US from the council and would not participate in it, adding: "As a matter of policy, we do not comment on private diplomatic conversations." Pakistain’s diplomatic mission in Geneva did not respond to a request for comment. "The US seems to be trying to have it both ways. It doesn’t want to pay for or participate in the UN but it still wants to boss it around," said Lucy McKernan, Deputy Director for United Nations at Human Rights Watch’s Geneva office. The US was once the top donor to the UN rights system, but Trump has said the UN is "not being well run," and aid cuts by his administration have forced scalebacks. The US and Israel are not members of the council but, like all UN member states have informal observer status and a seat in the council’s meeting chamber. Related: Human Rights Council: 2025-03-28 Trump pulls Stefanik’s nomination for UN envoy due to GOP’s slim House majority Human Rights Council: 2025-02-17 Hosting Rubio Sunday, Netanyahu says ‘gates of hell will surely open’ if all hostages not freed Human Rights Council: 2025-02-08 In meeting with Sa’ar, top Italian diplomat says Rome will no longer work with UNRWA |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 When was the last time the USA did something for the UN United Nations Foundation Making history in September 1997, Turner announced his historic pledge of $1 billion to the United Nations Foundation (UNF) to support the goals and objectives of the United Nations to promote a more peaceful, prosperous and just world. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-06 09:56 |
| #2 When was the last time the USA did something for the UN that it did not cost the US more lives and more $$$$ than any other UN nation? Why are the USA Taxpayers covering over 25%+ of the UN Human and $$$$ Operations? When The United Nations comprise 190+ nations. Also, how about moving the UN to the Azores so it can be closer to all the whiners? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-04-06 05:18 |
| #1 Sell the building right out from under them. They'll sue and a dozen other things...who cares? |
| Posted by: Crusader 2025-04-06 01:06 |