The United States walked out in protest from a United Nations Security Council meeting during the speech of the French ambassador. The Paris diplomat had compared the United States to North Korea and Russia during a vote on human rights.
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“A member of this Council feigns moral outrage and wants to lecture everyone on any subject, whether it is the conflict we are still discussing today,” Ukraine, or “issues unrelated to peace and security, such as human rights. That is why we left the room during France’s speech,” said Dan Negrea, the United States Deputy Ambassador.
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The US was one of ten countries to vote on Friday at the General Assembly against renewing the mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, joining nations such as North Korea, Russia, Nicaragua, and Mali. “Once the United States was a model in human rights. It is no longer so. Today it finds itself alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali, and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens,” commented the French mission to the United Nations in Geneva with a message published in English on X.
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