Note
Senator Lugar told the Security Council yesterday that it was "critically necessary" for the UN to establish a new Human Rights Council "to replace the Human Rights Commission, which has been discredited because of the membership of repressive and undemocratic regimes. The membership criteria of the new Council must ensure that those elected to it observe human rights and abide by the rule of law." Senator Lugar must have had the draft of the Council now being discussed, which contains no membership criteria, and have known that the idea of "membership criteria" fell off the negotiating table almost two months ago. The question is, what is Senator Lugar proposing that the U.S. do about it?