US Walks Out of UN Meeting in Rift Over Austrian Rights Chief

New York/Wien — The United States walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday in a striking protest linked to the reappointment of Austria’s Volker Türk as the UN’s top human rights official. The diplomatic row began after the UN General Assembly gave Türk a second four-year term, despite opposition from the US, [...] The post US Walks Out of UN Meeting in Rift Over Austrian Rights Chief appeared first on Voice of Vienna .

New York/Wien — The United States walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday in a striking protest linked to the reappointment of Austria’s Volker Türk as the UN’s top human rights official. The diplomatic row began after the UN General Assembly gave Türk a second four-year term, despite opposition from the US, [...] The post US Walks Out of UN Meeting in Rift Over Austrian Rights Chief appeared first on Voice of Vienna .