NEW YORK, March 4 (UPI) -- U.S. objections to proposed reform of the U.N. Human Rights Commission could deny the new panel credibility without improving it, the New York Times reports.
John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has suggested either renegotiating or postponing action. While representatives of a number of other countries and human rights organizations echo his objections, they say a flawed plan is better than none.
"If we reopen it to negotiations, there will be chaos, and if we postpone it, it will be a negative signal for the priority that human rights should have at the (United Nations)," Heraldo Muñoz, the Chilean ambassador, told the Times on Friday.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said he was unsure if Bolton's purpose is to reform the United Nations or to prove it can't be done.
