Erekat: US advancing ‘international anarchy’ with exit from UN rights body

20 June 2018, 7:24 pm

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A senior Palestinian official says the United States was advancing “international anarchy” after it withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council over its alleged bias against Israel.

Palestine Liberation Organization secretary-general Saeb Erekat says the US move aligned it with “Israel’s colonization of Palestine, rather than the rule of international law and UN resolutions.”

“The Trump administration continues its efforts to promote international anarchy by withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council,” he says in a statement.

Erekat says the move came after the United States failed to “normalize” Israeli settlement expansion and “other systematic violations of Palestinian national and human rights.”