United States rejoins U.N. rights council

The United States returned Wednesday to the U.N. Human Rights Council, a body it left nine months ago saying it was biased against Israel and had failed to confront notorious rights abusers.
The United States informed the council it will resume participating in meetings as an active observer. Observer status means the United States can engage in debate but not vote.

“We will expect — of ourselves and of the governments in this chamber representing every region of the world — a willingness to overcome our differences and to unite in common purpose,” Mark Stroll, charge affairs of the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva, told the council.

/that Obama is just chock full of good ideas