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By Pamela Falk U.N. nominee on America s role in the world
United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, President Joe Biden s pick to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that effective diplomacy means more than shaking hands and staging photo ops. In Thomas-Greenfield s prepared testimony at her confirmation hearing, released in advance to CBS News, she vows to work closely not only with America s foreign partners, but to develop a strong partnership with lawmakers in Washington to push a unified agenda.
President-elect Joe Biden listens as his nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 24, 2020.
Nikki Haley Calls for Biden Not to Rejoin UN’s Human Rights Council
A former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Monday called on President Joe Biden not to rejoin the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing the body of making a “mockery of human rights.”
Nikki Haley, who served in the position during the Trump administration, said the council “is a cesspool of political bias that makes a mockery of human rights.”
“If Biden rejoins the council whose membership includes dictatorial regimes & some of the world’s worst human rights violators, it will fly in the face of our fight for human rights,” she wrote in a tweet.
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In a final swipe at China, the Trump administration’s outgoing U.N. ambassador tweeted that it’s time for the world to oppose China’s efforts to exclude and isolate Taiwan, drawing sharp criticism from Beijing.
To make the point even more graphic, Ambassador Kelly Craft accompanied the tweet with a photo of herself in the U.N. General Assembly Hall where the island is banned. And she carried a handbag with a stuffed Taiwan bear sticking out of the top, a gift from Taiwan’s representative in New York, Ambassador James Lee.
Taiwan left the United Nations in 1971 when China joined. Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province and has been using its diplomatic clout to stop its 23 million people from joining any organizations that require statehood for membership including the U.N. World Health Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization.