John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said he will start the new year by reinvigorating stalled efforts to restructure management of the world body, beginning with a controversial push to seek assurances that the Security Council’s five major powers will be guaranteed posts on a new Human Rights Council. Bolton said in an interview that the Bush administration wants to ensure that the United States is never again denied membership in the United Nations’ principal human rights body, as it was in 2001, when Austria, France and Sweden defeated a U.S. bid for membership in the Geneva-based Human Rights Commission. Full Story
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