{"id":35282,"date":"2026-07-28T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=35282"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:19:54","slug":"us-diplomats-walk-out-as-france-addresses-the-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=35282","title":{"rendered":"US diplomats walk out as France addresses the UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US accused France of \u201ccondescending\u201d rhetoric over its human rights stances<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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France\u2019s UN Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont speaks at the Security Council emergency meeting on Russia’s war in Ukraine [Leonardo Munoz\/AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

United States diplomats walked out of a United Nations Security Council meeting on Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine as France\u2019s delegation took the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The walkout on Monday came two days after an online exchange between US and French officials over Washington voting against renewing the four-year term of UN human rights chief Volker Turk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France\u2019s UN Mission in Geneva wrote on Saturday that the US was no longer a \u201cbeacon of human rights\u201d and stood isolated alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz replied on X that France had voted for a rights chief who \u201chas been lecturing free, sovereign democracies like the United States, the UK, and Israel, while cozying up to the world\u2019s worst oppressors\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the walkout, Dan Negrea, an alternate US representative, told the council that his delegation would keep walking out until France renounced its \u201ccondescending and disrespectful rhetoric\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France\u2019s ambassador, Jerome Bonnafont, did not mention the walkout when he spoke, saying France was working to preserve the UN\u2019s independence and its capacity to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turk, who has criticised violations of international law by Israel and the US in Palestine and Iran, was reappointed by a UN General Assembly vote of 144 in favour, 10 against and 13 abstentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administration of US President Donald Trump has cut funding to UN agencies and withdrawn from dozens of UN entities since 2025. It had also threatened to reassess its engagement over Turk\u2019s mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington and Paris have also clashed over NATO spending<\/a>, trade policy<\/a> and Trump\u2019s threats to occupy Greenland<\/a>, a territory of NATO member Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France, along with other European states, has also drawn Trump\u2019s ire for refusing direct participation in the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/27\/us-diplomats-walk-out-as-france-addresses-un-security-council<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US accused France of \u201ccondescending\u201d rhetoric over its human rights stances. United States diplomats walked out of a United Nations Security Council meeting on Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine as France\u2019s delegation took the floor. The walkout on Monday came two days after an online exchange between US and French officials over Washington voting against renewing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[512,1404,1509,1149,1333,32575],"class_list":["post-35282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-america-2","tag-france-2","tag-human-rights-2","tag-un-2","tag-unsc-2","tag-walkout","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35283,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35282\/revisions\/35283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}