UNITED NATIONS, July 28 \u2014 The United States walked out of a UN Security Council meeting Monday when France\u2019s ambassador took the floor, protesting French comments comparing the US to North Korea and other authoritarian states regarding votes on human rights.<\/p>\n
Dan Negrea, an alternate representative to the General Assembly and a senior US delegation official, slammed what he called \u201cdisingenuous grandstanding\u201d by Paris.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a member of this council that will feign moral outrage and pretend to lecture the rest of us about every topic, whether it\u2019s about the very conflict we\u2019re discussing yet again today, or even those unrelated to international peace and security, like human rights,\u201d Negrea said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why we walked out during France\u2019s intervention\u201d at the meeting, which focused on the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Such a walkout from the Security Council, the UN\u2019s highest decision-making body where both France and the United States are veto-wielding permanent members, is very rare.<\/p>\n
On Friday the United States was one of 10 countries to vote in the General Assembly against extending Volker Turk\u2019s term as UN high commissioner for human rights, joining the ranks of North Korea, Russia and Nicaragua, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore,\u201d France\u2019s mission to the United Nations in Geneva posted in English after Friday\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his remarks Monday, Negrea said: \u201cI remind them that it is the United States that remains the beacon of liberty for the world. As such, we will not be affording them the benefit of listening to their politicized drivel.\u201d<\/p>\n
French Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont responded to the US walkout, saying: \u201cThis year we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. And everyone knows the role France has played in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that France is working at the UN, both in the Security Council and the General Assembly, \u201cto preserve this institution, its independence, and its capacity to act in service of the charter, in service of human rights, and in service of peace.\u201d \u2014\u00a0 AFP<\/p>\n
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