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Washington urges UN to turn fire on its own targets
THE United States demanded yesterday that the UN human rights council end its criticism of Israel and turn its fire on Washington’s targets instead.
Addressing the body at its seat in Geneva, US envoy Erin Barclay claimed: “The obsession with Israel … is the largest threat to this council’s credibility.
“When it comes to human rights, no country should be free from scrutiny, but neither should any democratic country be regularly subjected to unfair, unbalanced and unfounded bias,” she said. Instead, she called on the council to focus on criticising Syria and North Korea.
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