UN human rights council: UK regrets U.S withdrawal

Boris Johnson

The United Kingdom has expressed regret over the decision of the U.S. to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council.

UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, in a statement by the United Kingdom Mission to the UN, said Britain wants to see a reformed council but would work for it from within.

The U.S., while announcing its withdrawal, said the “Council has become an exercise in shameless hypocrisy – with many of the world’s worst human rights abuses going ignored and some of the world’s most serious offenders sitting on the council itself’’.