“The crunch is on refineries. The global market right now is driven by the product market in the United States, which is why the situation is pretty bad.”
Roger Diwan
“The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively.”
Kenneth Roth
“The United States stands firmly in support of a solution that offers justice and human rights for all the citizens of a unified, peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka.”
Joe Lockhart
“There is an enormous problem that when a government as influential as the United States flouts basic human rights standards, it undermines the standards and gives green light to other governments to do the same.”
“China has always stood for human rights dialogue with other nations, including the United States, on an equal, two-way footing with mutual respect.”
Liu Jianchao
“(This) reflects the general assessment of the council's members on the real human rights situation in the United States.”
Phan Thuy Thanh
“Here, we'd like to advise the United States to think over its own human rights issues, correct its erroneous double standards on the human rights issue and stop using human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries' internal affairs.”
