March 2, 2006

Remarks of the Secretary-General to the Press on the Human Rights Council

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Secretary-General Annan prefers creating a Human Rights Council over the objections or without the support of the United States. The United States has reminded us all that the main problem with the UN Human Rights Commission was its membership and this proposed Council contains not one substantive membership criterion. One thing about this debacle over a discredited Council to replace a discredited Commission - it is clarifying the anti-Americanism shot through UN-led multilateralism.