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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (221451)	2/14/2003 10:28:13 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (221451)	2/14/2003 11:08:05 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

House Condemns Libya's Election to Head of Human Rights Commission URL:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78315,00.html Tuesday, February 11, 2003 WASHINGTON — The House condemned the selection of Libya, "a gross violator of human rights and state sponsor of terrorism," to chair the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. Voting 402-6, the House passed a resolution Tuesday that expressed dismay with the European Union, whose members abstained from the Jan. 20 vote to name Libyan ambassador Najat Al-Hajjaji as commission chairwoman. The resolution also criticized the 33 countries that supported her choice. The resolution commends President Bush for demanding a vote on the chairmanship, which broke with normal U.N. practice of not challenging a region's appointment. In the secret ballot, three countries opposed the nominee and 17 members abstained. The chairmanship is rotated annually among geographic groups, and this year African nations chose Libya. Other countries criticized the United States for not following the nonvoting tradition. "The United States cannot stand idly by as monstrous abusers of human rights, such as Libya, hijack the Human Rights Commission," said Tom Lantos, D-Calif., top Democrat on the House International Relations Committee. Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who introduced the nonbinding resolution, said the selection jeopardizes the credibility of the United Nations. House members also urged the president to demand that U.N. sanctions against Libya, currently suspended, be reinstated. The sanctions were imposed April 15, 1992, after investigators fingered two Libyans, alleged to have been intelligence agents, as perpetrators of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland. The two finally were turned over for trial, and a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted one and acquitted the other in January 2001. Sanctions were suspended afterward. The resolution now goes to the Senate for consideration.