RUSSIA HOPES TO REPLACE U.S. ON U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

BY JASON LEMON at Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/russia-hopes-replace-us-un-human-rights-council-985895

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After the U.S. announced Tuesday it would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, Russia has put forward its candidacy to rejoin the body.

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., branded the council as a “cesspool of political bias” that “makes a mockery of human rights” as she announced America’s disengagement. In a joint press conference with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley said the council was “hypocritical and self-serving,” while Pompeo called it “a poor defender of human rights.”

Vice President Mike Pence said on Twitter that the council “has engaged in ever more virulent anti-American, and anti-Israel invective,” declaring that “the days of U.S. participation are over.”


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