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US wants permanent 5 on UN human rights body
2006-01-05
US Ambassador John Bolton wants the five Security Council powers to have a seat on a still-disputed new UN human rights body, a move bound to anger nations who believe the five already are too dominant. Bolton told reporters on Tuesday that past traditions in the United Nations permitted the five powers to be included “on any UN body they think it is important to serve on.” He said he did not think that including the permanent five Security Council members - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - on the new human rights body should be written into its bylaws. But he said, “We will have to address the circumstances as the negotiations on the reform of the human rights commission proceed.”

At issue is the next big reform of the United Nations, a proposed human rights council that would replace the discredited Geneva-based 53-nation Human Rights Commission, which often includes the world’s worst rights offenders. Bolton, who first mentioned including the five, known as the “perm five” or “P-5,” to the Washington Post and quietly to some diplomats, has been striving to place the five at the center of UN decision-making.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Shouldn't the EU be sharing one seat like the US? Or I propose the US gets another seat too for, um....Texas.

Posted by: Seafarious   2006-01-05 19:06  

#5  I think Britian and France might be borderline at this point too.
Posted by: Secret Master   2006-01-05 18:54  

#4  Very well stated, CS! I, for one, probably wouldn't even include China, and Russia is borderline.
Posted by: BA   2006-01-05 12:03  

#3  Of course this just makes common sense to anyone, so the un will have to ditch it.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-01-05 10:40  

#2  Certainly does seem to be his own man DB.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-05 09:40  

#1  I like this guy more and more every day.
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-01-05 09:32  

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