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Haley: Decision to rejoin U.N. Human Rights Council is ‘embarrassing’ and ‘dangerous’
The former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. said the Trump administration withdrew from the body in 2018 so as not to ‘lend our credibility...to cover for the world’s worst tyrants and dictators’
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Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during the first day of the Republican convention at the Mellon auditorium on August 24, 2020 in Washington, D.C.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley called the Biden administration’s decision to rejoin the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday “dangerous” hours after the U.S. was elected to join the body.
“If President Biden truly...