[Iran Press TV] The United States has once again refused to attend a UN Human Rights Council special meeting on the situation in the occupied Paleostinian territories in the aftermath of the Israeli military's offensive in Gazoo last summer."As was the case last year, the United States will not engage in the debate. Neither will Israel. Instead, we will call a vote, and vote 'no' on Item 7 resolutions," the US ambassador to the council, Keith Harper, said on Monday.
Earlier, Israel also did not attend the UN body's special session. A source close to the council said on condition of anonymity that Israel's absence from the meeting in the Swiss city of Geneva on Monday clearly amounted to a boycott.
US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said that the United States had "coordinated our refusal to participate with Israel."
"The United States' approach to the Human Rights Council's Item 7 has not changed," Harper said.
"We remain deeply troubled
...meaning it might require more than two 'tuts'. If the other side responds at all it's known as a 'tut for tat' and it's worth 20 diplomatic points..
by this council's stand-alone agenda item directed against Israel, and by the many repetitive and one-sided resolutions under that agenda item," she added.