UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Darfur yesterday, its first on the region in its five-month existence. The resolution faulted no one for violating human rights and was so noncommittal that Europe and Canada opposed it. On more familiar ground, the council also passed two new anti-Israeli resolutions.
The Geneva-based rights council's record — six resolutions condemning Israeli violations; none criticizing any other country — was criticized even by Secretary-General Annan yesterday. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, and other independent organizations have also expressed disappointment with the council recently.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty complained as well? I'll be darned.
Annan, the master of the understatment.
"Obviously not everyone is entirely happy with the way they have started," Mr. Annan said. "Since the beginning of their work, they have focused almost entirely on Israel, and there are other crisis situations, like Sudan, where they have not been able to say a word."
Obviously, Mr. Annan the UN is still clueless.
Separately, the U.N. General Assembly today will hold its annual "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," marked symbolically on the anniversary of a November 29, 1947, resolution that divided British-mandated Palestine into two states
Yes, and last year at the annual get together, Annan posed with Palestinian representatives in front of a map of the Middle East that did not conatin the country of Israel - a member state of the UN.
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