Diplomats Say U.S. Will Regain Rights Panel Seat
The U.S. is set to regain the seat it lost last spring on the U.N. Human Rights Commission, reversing a humiliating defeat that exacerbated already tense relations between the United Nations and the Bush administration, U.N. diplomats said.
Two rivals from the European Union, Italy and Spain, pulled out of the running for seats on the commission this week, and Western diplomats said the U.S. announced its candidacy for what is now an uncontested seat on the top U.N. human rights body.
Last May, the U.S. lost the seat it had held since the commission was established more than five decades ago. The ouster caused an outcry in Washington.
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