U.S. diplomats walked out of a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday as their French counterparts were speaking amid tensions between the two countries over the U.S.’s human rights record. On Saturday, the French Mission in Geneva criticized the U.S.’s vote against the reappointment of the body’s high commissioner of human rights, Volker Türk. …

US walks out on France at UN meeting to protest human rights criticism
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