November 2, 2005

Draft Resolution on the Situation of human rights in Turkmenistan

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Many of the countries objecting in theory to the naming of a state which violates human rights, used UN "reform" negotiations over a Human Rights Council as a justification for silence. As Sudan said, "these resolutions undermine all efforts to reform the UN Commission on Human Rights." Translation: the world's worst human rights violators will stand in the way of UN reform in order to protect themselves - and of course attempt to lay the blame on the United States and Ambassador John Bolton.