UN - Supporting Terrorism & Terrorists

First example: Supporting terror states

UNITED NATIONS - The United States bowed to pressure from its allies on Tuesday and agreed to support a new program to temporarily funnel additional humanitarian aid directly to the Palestinian people.

A statement by Mideast peacemakers, issued after a day of closed-door diplomatic meetings, did not suggest precisely how much or what kind of aid they would provide. But the agreement seemed to underscore a concern that months of withholding most aid from the Palestinians, part of an effort to pressure the new Hamas-led government toward a more accommodating stance with Israel, was harming the Palestinian people.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the European Union would take the lead in the new effort. The United Nations and Russia, the other partners in the Quartet peacemaking group along with the U.S., also endorsed the program.

"The thrust of this is the international community is still trying to respond to the needs of the Palestinian people," Rice said.

Second Example: human rights abusers now in charge of human rights

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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The UN General Assembly elected Cuba, China and Saudi Arabia to the new Human Rights Council, putting notorious abusers on a panel created to replace its discredited predecessor.

US Ambassador John Bolton derided the inclusion of Cuba to the council and said it proved that Washington's concerns about the new panel, which it voted against, were justified.

"What a joy," Bolton said sarcastically of Havana's election. "That simply says that the deficiencies from the previous commission may well now still be carried over, as we sadly predicted when we voted against this resolution."

"The good news is that some of the least deserving governments were not elected and both Venezuela and Iran failed to make the cut. That is a step in the right direction," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of New York-based Human Rights Watch.

"There are a number of governments that did get elected that we would prefer not to be there -- China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Cuba -- but this was almost inevitable," Roth said.

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