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Article: INSIDER NOTES FROM UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
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- May 15, 2001
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United Press International
05-15-2001
Insider notes from United Press International
May 15, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former President Reagan's United Nations ambassador, and Richard Holbrooke, who held the same job under President Bill Clinton, both agree: Congress has got it wrong about who was responsible for the United Nations Human Rights Commission failing to re-elect the United States as a member. The problem is not the U.N., it's the European members of the Western regional group in the U.N. Economic and Social Council. This was the group that elected Austria, France and Sweden but not the United States. Withholding funds from the U.N., ...