14 janeiro 2003

ECO-TERROR
U.S. Will Protest Libya's Chairing UN Rights Body: The United States plans to break with tradition and force a vote at the U.N.'s top human rights body in a bid to stop Libya from taking the chair at the March annual session [...]
The chairmanship of the Commission, whose annual session in Geneva runs from March 17-April 25, is traditionally awarded by rotation, with the right to name the candidate falling each year to one of the body's five regional groupings.
Never since the Commission was launched in 1947 has a regional choice of chairman been put to a ballot, even in the depths of the Cold War, U.N. officials said.
This year it was Africa's turn and despite intense international pressure, not just from the United States, African countries have stuck by Libya as their candidate.