How China will gain if Trump pulls a Paris on UN Human Rights Council
How China will gain if Trump pulls a Paris on UN Human Rights Council
- China could extend its influence in the United Nations Human Rights Council if the United States makes good on its threat to quit, hot on the heels of its shock withdrawal from the Paris climate deal this month, analysts said.
They made the remarks after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley singled out China and other members of the council for criticism.
“Countries like Venezuela, Cuba, China, Burundi and Saudi Arabia occupy positions that obligate them to, in the words of the resolution that created the Human Rights Council, ‘uphold the highest standards’ of human rights. They clearly do not uphold those highest standards,” she said at the Graduate Institute of Geneva this month.
- China could extend its influence in the United Nations Human Rights Council if the United States makes good on its threat to quit, hot on the heels of its shock withdrawal from the Paris climate deal this month, analysts said.
They made the remarks after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley singled out China and other members of the council for criticism.
“Countries like Venezuela, Cuba, China, Burundi and Saudi Arabia occupy positions that obligate them to, in the words of the resolution that created the Human Rights Council, ‘uphold the highest standards’ of human rights. They clearly do not uphold those highest standards,” she said at the Graduate Institute of Geneva this month.