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US to seek second term on UN rights council

By REUTERS

MARCH 30, 2011 18:08

WASHINGTON - The United States will seek a second term on the UN Human Rights Council which has made significant progress over the past two years despite a "biased and disproportionate focus on Israel," the State Department said on Thursday.

"We believe that US engagement in the Human Rights Council has directly resulted in real progress," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement announcing the decision to seek a new term.

Despite opposition by some pro-Israel groups, the Obama administration took the United States into the council in 2009 with a promise to focus on traditional Western concerns about civil and political freedoms.

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